Yep MCU's are no longer optional to keep the economy going.The lead-time on orders of STM32 microcontrollers is around 2 years at the moment.
That's fucked up, y'all.
These little chips make so many products work better (or work at all).
Hopefully STMicro will fill the backlog more quickly than promised.
Decentralizing manufacturing is not profitable, and the economic incentives are to maximize profits.Yep MCU's are no longer optional to keep the economy going.
I really don't get how nobody has been de-sensitizing the wafer market and making sure manufacturing is more distributed. Things will shut down pretty quick without them.
All the eggs in Taiwan's basket is not a good long term situation. With China looking across the 100 miles and thinking they need to make a move makes the world grind to a halt when everything from your dishwasher to the jumbo jet and stinger missiles need those chips. The US is behind on the power curve and will take about 6 years to approach the current chip production quality.Decentralizing manufacturing is not profitable, and the economic incentives are to maximize profits.
I'd love to own an electronics factory and my town would be well situated to host one (educated workforce, good highway connectivity), but I haven't yet found investors and customers who want lower profits and higher prices than they can get in Shenzhen.
Lots of people talk about resiliency and like to say patriotic things about onshoring manufacturing. But nothing changes until businesses are willing to be less competitive to gain that resiliency.
I will personally fix this problem if anyone wants to lend me a few million dollars for a few years with low returns!
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Now is when we need it more.I just noticed, what happened to the Tesla Stock ticker on the forum???