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.
Honest question: How can everyone be short of chips? I understand that e.g. car makers reduced their orders and their capacity was given to other manufacturers so they are kind of screwed but surely since the overall capacity got increased (albeit by a relatively small amount) then some manufacturers should have stuff. As far as I can see, pretty much everyone who uses electronics seems to be not just "a bit short" b…
People aren’t buying what they need for the next month, they are trying to get a year or 18 months of supply.