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Kasper:
Just had a client ask for a 2nd copy of a one-off linear actuator system I made for him 8 years ago.

Much to my suprise, all the electronic components aside from a cap and inductor are in stock.  It's pretty simple, just some bucks, opto isolators, mosfets and the like but still, I expected atleast some to be obsolete.

Even the servo and controller were in stock with the old dealer and they are slightly cheaper now than they were 8 years ago.
jonovid:
Yellen begins China trip amid deepening divide     7 July 2023

more trade restrictions in Chinese electronics is not looking good.
Ed.Kloonk:
The more they interfere, the more things seem to fuck up.
Neutrion:
Did anyone noticed that actual nation states were also bunkering ICs?
For Russia, if they were preparing for the invasion it would totally make sense, but but also for China.

Did not went through all the messages here, but I don't remember much discussion about it.

Other thing connected to this topic:
Ikea LED candle, board made in 2021 may. MCU number IRLZ272. Did not find anything about it, but obviously IKEA did not have any problems sourcing these in the middle of the shortage for such a cheap product.
What can it be? 14 leg SO?   package,  8th-leg VCC 9th leg GND. Runs from under 2V uses around 2-3 mA when working.

tom66:
There wasn't a major shortage for the biggest OEMs.  Even car manufacturers could get parts, it was just a case that they could not get enough to satisfy all of their demand and a few specific line items were very difficult to source.

For a company like IKEA, they likely ordered 1 million of that bulb and they could get the chip when needed.  It's the small guys who need the general purpose microcontrollers and so on that got screwed over, they didn't represent enough business for the big suppliers to care about, so they got almost no parts.

Fortunately that's significantly improved nowadays.
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