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Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by vanattab »

camtarn wrote: post #103
formerly_proven wrote: post #4

Currently working on a new design for a client, it's quite a pain. Lots of things, even mundane things like connectors and such are out of stock / low stock and usually quite a bit more expensive.

Yep, similarly. We work with PLCs where the manufacturer normally has fairly deep stocks of all the PLC CPUs, expansion cards, etc - guaranteed part availability is one of the big selling points of using PLCs. Some things are still available but others are completely out, to the point where we're considering completely redesigning some of our smaller experimental projects around e.g. Raspberry Pis. What we do when RP…

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/20/raspberry_pi_supply_e...

rpi4 are already getting hard to find.

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by kogepathic »

yread wrote: post #125
rwmj wrote: post #112

Work laptop was quoted today as delivery in "up to" 24 weeks (with well-informed people saying it might well take that long). And I cannot find anyone with Raspberry Pi CM3+ compute modules with delivery before April 2022.

indeed, I'm shopping for a laptop and Hp firefly 14 g8 has est. delivery mid march

I ordered an HP ProBook in April 2021 and I'm still waiting. The original delivery was scheduled for July, and that's been pushed back twice now.

A few weeks ago they emailed me saying the AX200 is unavailable and my choice was Realtek WiFi, or cancel my order.

I'm seriously wondering if they'll ever deliver. I might cancel my order if Ryzen 6000 is released before they manage to ship.

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Post by swader999 »

MisterTea wrote: post #95
swader999 wrote: post #63

Any truth to the rumour that semi truck drive train linkages are unavailable North America wide right now? That could exasperate things quickly.

Do you mean U-joints? Or the major components themselves such as transmission, driveshaft, axle, differential, brake chambers, etc?

Yeah u joints

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

lelandfe wrote: post #85
tailspin2019 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Literally building a brand new hospital. We built multiple temporary hospitals in the UK too. And albeit not so widely reported, temporary morgues. To be honest I assumed a whole bunch of countries were doing this...

Yeah, NYC saw "temporary morgues" as well, in the form of refrigerated shipping containers. One of the more resonant memories of the pandemic from last year to me.

This happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic as well. Rather, the overflow of casualties happened - not refrigerated shipping containers.

Samples of sick people were recovered for researching that strain of influenza by locating large graves which had been created where it remained cold enough to preserve the bodies. Until I'd heard that and lived through last year, the gravity of it all totally eluded me. It takes a lot before people start burying the dead in trenches; it's perhaps second to the worst case in which we can't even manage that. A scenario common to war but nothing else I can think of.

I've been so isolated from these kinds of circumstances for all of the pandemic, but I try to remind myself that it's exactly why lock downs and masks and all the hassle are actually completely reasonable. The alternative is incredibly dark, evidently.

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Post by X-Istence »

lbriner wrote: post #126
formerly_proven wrote: post #4

Currently working on a new design for a client, it's quite a pain. Lots of things, even mundane things like connectors and such are out of stock / low stock and usually quite a bit more expensive.

How are non-ICs in short-supply? Did I miss a whole story about supply chain problems or is it literally that overall demand has maxed out overall supply and most people don't have the means to increase production?

If you look at the various ports, the ships are waiting to enter so that they can offload.

There's a lack of shipping options available to get items to the US in the first place, that means that various bits and bobs necessary to manufacture a widget aren't available because they are stuck in a shipping container somewhere around the world and there is no available space to put it on a ship.

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Post by fsslrisrchr »

eljimmy wrote: post #10
CydeWeys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird to blame the lockdowns when the real cause was the pandemic. It's not like everyone was going to continually working normally in crowded spaces with people dropping like flies in the hospitals. China especially was hit so incredibly badly in that first wave; it was always gonna go pear-shaped no matter what.

It's true - China's numbers, unsurprisingly, really don't give light to how badly they were impacted. I remember reading about how they were building brand new hospitals to cope. Literally building a brand new hospital. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/pictures-china-builds-two-ho... Looking back on that, it's interesting to think about how that should have been a major warning sign of things to come for the rest of t…

That and that they closed their industrial heartland made me take COVID seriously at least a month earlier than anyone else.

Not much I could do but wait, but at least I didnt find myself rushing for toilet paper (I learned during snowdays in GA that Americans rush for the milk and toilet paper in emergencies)

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Post by X-Istence »

brk wrote: post #119
MisterTea wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean U-joints? Or the major components themselves such as transmission, driveshaft, axle, differential, brake chambers, etc?

I think he means general availability of trucks and drivers. Not drivetrain components specifically.

No drivetrain components are becoming unavailable.

https://www.jittruckparts.com/blog/post/3-takeaways-from-the... https://www.ccjdigital.com/maintenance/article/15066337/truc...

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Post by wyager »

tablespoon wrote: post #130
whatshisface wrote: post #64

Smart business people will take this as a lesson about the dangers of zero-inventory manufacturing. Unscrupulous business people will continue running the business at high risk, knowing that they will probably be gone by the time a problem arises. Very smart leaders will use this as an opportunity to think about how to stop their companies from forgetting someone's involvement with a project or process during interna…

> Unscrupulous business people will continue running the business at high risk, knowing that they will probably be gone by the time a problem arises. Or they can just price gouge. Heads I win, tails you lose.

“Price gouging” is precisely the behavior that makes it economical to keep around extra stock in case of supply shocks. Negative public reaction to, and laws against, “price gouging” is the reason almost no business chooses to absorb the cost of keeping around an extra reserve.

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Post by [deleted] »

tablespoon wrote: post #128
Qub3d wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine one end result of this supply squeeze is that a lot of bespoke or legacy parts will be finally removed from designs that have up until now been "good enough". To cite the most common example, vehicle manufacturers' most common supply pain-point is ICs built on a ~200nm process, which was state of the art between 1996-2000. I understand it makes sense to move slower for chips embedded in long-life devices, a…

> To cite the most common example, vehicle manufacturers' most common supply pain-point is ICs built on a ~200nm process, which was state of the art between 1996-2000. I'm a total layman, but that might be misunderstanding "state of the art." Larger feature sizes may be better for their applications if they allow the parts to be more reliable.

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Post by wyager »

CydeWeys wrote: post #5
brink wrote: post #2

Whatever your opinion is about the lockdowns, there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on; they destabilize just about everything. I'm worried about people going hungry or not being able to heat their home this winter from the ripple effects.

Weird to blame the lockdowns when the real cause was the pandemic. It's not like everyone was going to continually working normally in crowded spaces with people dropping like flies in the hospitals. China especially was hit so incredibly badly in that first wave; it was always gonna go pear-shaped no matter what.

> Weird to blame the lockdowns when the real cause was the pandemic.

The lockdowns were the actual proximate cause for most business disruptions.

> It's not like everyone was going to continually working normally in crowded spaces with people dropping like flies in the hospitals.

People who are employed are usually younger than 65 and therefore were never at significant demographic health risk from coronavirus.

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