[RummyChick]

great..I will have to buy a new car soon..and a washing machine..and it just keeps getting worse

[BobL]

“great..I will have to buy a new car soon..and a washing machine..and it just keeps getting worse”

Maybe you’ll get lucky and the washing machines will revert to their perfectly-functional analog prior configurations.

[Phoenix8]

Or you hit the wipers and the car goes into spin cycle!

(But seriously it does seem to be worsening)

[Jane Long]

😱 you might have to go old school....

[DesertRhino]

Maybe we will finally get a return to sanity in products. Thermostats, doorbells, refrigerators, washers and driers, dishwashers all were better before chips.
A simple timer is all you need in a washer and drier.

[Zuriel]

That’s why I flip the breaker to our new range when a electrical storm is brewing in the area.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, let’s get to building ‘em over here now, so that we’ll start having our own chips in 2024.

Oh, that’s right, Brandon will make sure our economic conditions don’t favor such a move.

[Libloather]

I will have to buy a new car soon...and a washing machine...

A car that has a rinse cycle? I would pay extra for that.

[bleach]

Bad enough we have to worry about our catalytic converters. Now we have to fear coming hone and seeing our Maytag jacked up and parts missing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I wonder if the open source Arduino is a viable option?

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction

[Secret Agent Man]

If you have an older washing machine, fix it when it needs it. They are built better than newer ones. The further you go back the better they survive. Also the less computerized the better.

[moovova]

As long as your new car doesn’t have a “linen/whites/wash’n wear” cycle knob on the dash, you should be good to go.

[muir_redwoods]

I suppose all those 5 year-old obsolete computers we’ve all got stashed couldn’t be mined for their chips.

[Myrddin]

The semiconductor industry was already behind when the Russian/Ukraine war got underway. That stopped the shipment of neon required to fabricate the chips. Some chips take 6 months from start to finish. The manufacturers had 3 weeks on neon "on hand" when the supply was cut. Assuming the war ends with the neon generating capability intact, there will still be months of delay to restart the fabs. In the interim, cannibalizing equipment to get needed chips is going to be a viable path. Lots of "hanger queens" on the way.

[Zathras]

This sounds like fake news.
The microcontrollers in appliances are not the same those in cars or even other appliances.
For sure they are not the same as in home computers.

[Vaduz]

Global microchip shortage the price of dealing with China that off shore thingy working great huh.