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As someone who deals with hardware down to the single component level supply chain issues are definitely still a thing. So you will find random products that se
by atoav 4y ago
As someone who deals with hardware down to the single component level supply chain issues are definitely still a thing. So you will find random products that see themselves without that one IC needed to manufacture it. I myself had to re-design a whole PCB because a (during normal times standard) part was not available even in the timiest quantity anywhere.
And because of the efficiency fetishism we have managed ourselves into the chip shortage still ripples back and forth (people stockpiling parts themselves will lead to local shortages etc).
So there certainly is an element of "you cannot get the thing you want to get, even if you have money"