[Elecraft] This does not bode well for the chip users of the world

[Christopher Hoover]

This has been a problem on and off for at least five years.

It is somewhat worse now than it has been recently, but it is more of the
same.

I had to design out the uC on Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 (EE2) in
2018 the week before we were supposed to gerber out for our proto build.
 I found 1000 pieces of a suitable alternative *in stock* at Digikey that I
immediately bought on  my credit card that would carry us through proto and
EVT, and our GSM  simultaneously secured an allocation from the supplier
for what we needed production.

73 de Ai6KG
-- Christopher.



On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:20 AM Dave Cole <dave at nk7z.net> wrote:

> An interesting story from OPB dealing with the global shortage of chips...
>
>
> https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/29/it-s-not-just-cars-ipads-and-macs-suffer-from-semiconductor-crunch/
>
> --
> 73, and thanks,
> Dave (NK7Z)
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