Computing is baked into the design of almost everything because it was so good at driving down component counts and increasing reliability. It's ironic that the

Computing is baked into the design of almost everything because it was so good at driving down component counts and increasing reliability. It's ironic that the very devices that drove this change are now themselves the failure point. I worry that this collapse will find its way into machine tools, the basis of all industry. If inserts (cutting tools used for almost everything) were to suffer a similar shortage, a lot of well tuned industrial processes would have to go through all the pain of startup again, instead of just being able to crank out more of the same parts every 6 months when a few more were needed. This is a very analogous situation we now find ourselves in, in the electronics world. You can't just use a new chip without going through all the teething pains, the months of frustration as you keep finding new corner cases. There are very good reasons for conservative views in the machining and electronics worlds. The accountants who outsourced everything tore down Chesterton's fence... and it turned out to be holding up the world.