Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
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Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#2This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#3This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Maybe. But getting a raspberry pi is still next to imposible.
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#4This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Maybe. But getting a raspberry pi is still next to imposible.
This prompted me to look on Ebay, where Pi 4 prices are mad (>£100!) but the previous generations seem to be more normal. Wonder if it's worth me digging up any 3s I have and selling them.
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#6> one large industrial conglomerate had resorted to buying washing machines just to scavenge the chips inside them for its products
Is this really more efficient than say, contacting the washing machine manufacturer and buying up the chips at a premium (i.e. above the washing machine cost).
I usually applaud hacky solutions, but this just feels like a ton of unnecessary waste. I would prefer scrapping features (like Tesla did with the USB ports) over trashing a ton of washing machines.
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#7This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Well the pretty vanilla chip I waited year for last year is now only on 48 weeks lead time...
The other a bit less common one is only few months tho, compared to year+ so I guess it slowly is. Inflation probably helped too
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#8This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Maybe. But getting a raspberry pi is still next to imposible.
What worked for me was installing Twitter to get notifications from @rpilocator. Adafruit restocks (IIRC) on Wednesday or Thursday afternoons and you have a couple minute window before they sell out. Be sure to have two-factor auth set up in your Adafruit account in advance, it's required for pi orders.
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#9This article was May 2022. Apparently things are already beginning to change.
Well the pretty vanilla chip I waited year for last year is now only on 48 weeks lead time... The other a bit less common one is only few months tho, compared to year+ so I guess it slowly is. Inflation probably helped too
>only on 48 weeks lead time...
Small end-users receiving chips is a lagging indicator of the state of the supply chain. Companies are already warning about surplus inventory, ie:
https://moneyweek.com/economy/global-economy/605232/semicond...
Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
#10> one large industrial conglomerate had resorted to buying washing machines just to scavenge the chips inside them for its products Is this really more efficient than say, contacting the washing machine manufacturer and buying up the chips at a premium (i.e. above the washing machine cost). I usually applaud hacky solutions, but this just feels like a ton of unnecessary waste. I would prefer scrapping features (like…
Yeah, in this case the manufacturer probably didn't have any extra chips. Also, in my experience, these companies were unwilling to go outside their system and charge a markup for their own stock.
Instead of giving me the ICs directly, I had to wait for them to ship an order of dev boards to Digikey that I'd already purchased and they were building to order.