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| Karel:
I'll believe it when RPI4b's become plenty available for normal prices... 8) :popcorn: |
| forrestc:
I run a small electronics OEM + Manufacturer for products I've designed over the years. I will say that the industry has definitely stabilized. While I'm still dealing with long lead times, many common products are back in stock and I'm not nearly as stressed about "which product are we going to run out of that we just can't find an alternative for". Or in other words, it seems like we at least have a brief respite from the craziness of the last couple of years. Hopefully it will continue to go back to normal. |
| Robotec:
according to the salesman in embedded world fair, Raspberries should start to be back in stock around late summer. |
| VK3DRB:
I just went to Electronex exhibition in Melbourne, where I bumped into many vendors and friends in the industry. The general feeling is the worst seems to be over which chip supply. Some had sheer hell when Chipageddon was in full swing. One embedded programmer spent six months recompiling code to work on alternative CPUs to the STM32, because STM was not supplying them to anyone except the big players. The exhibition was great but the $7.50 cup of chips ("fries" to the Americans) was so overcooked and horrible, the cardboard cup would have had more taste and nutrition. About 20 thin fries for $7.50. That's 37.5 cents per dried up fry. If I had an AR-15 handy, I might be tempted to reenact Michael Douglas in the movie Falling Down, and call it Chipageddon II. :popcorn: |
| tom66:
Bumping this thread to moan a bit. What's a typical amount of time for a supplier to announce a part is going obsolete? I had normally thought around 18 months to 2 years then a further last time buy period follows of at least 6 months - 1 year after the part is officially "NRND". In this case, onsemi has obsoleted the FAN5702, an RGB I2C LED driver. The announcement was made in 2Q2022 for one variant, and 3Q2022 for all other variants, with the part having an official last manufacture date of March 2023. https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/pcnPub.do?pn=FAN5702UC15X,FAN5702UMP08X,FAN5702UMP30X,FAN5702UMP20X,FAN5702UMP15X,FAN5702UC30X,FAN5702UC20X,FAN5702UC08X That's a VERY short time to obsolete a part and then discontinue all manufacture, and has stung us having to find an alternative, and respin existing boards as stock is running dry. |
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