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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by colechristensen on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:09AM (#29711009)
No, short term and long term availability of a part in volume has always been a part of circuit design. The current situation has been a unique extreme of this, but buying a million count of an electronic part hasn’t ever been an arbitrary off the shelf affair. How many a distributor has for immediate shipping, the lead time for large quantities, and the end of life plans were always a consideration. Before though the problems you were trying to avoid were more like not delaying production for six weeks because a part was out of stock or whether you could keep building this board for the next ten years.
Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by varjag on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:02AM (#29712146)
I would agree for million (depending on market segment, you could be talking straight with mfg then). But we were talking about 1k, a tiny quantity as far as production rounds go.