I am directly impacted by this, and it’s especially affecting medium-sized businesses, where you can’t get by with just one or two of something, and it’s not just computer CPUs, it’s almost everything in a modern device.
The hole it puts us in is we either wait out the lead-times (27-48 weeks for some components) and produce nothing in the mean time, or take the time and money to redesign a product, which may take longer than waiting it out. For some stuff there are workarounds, but when you’ve built a product around a certain processor with specific features, the options are really limited, and that’s if something was even available as a viable replacement.
It’s a pretty frustrating time.
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