Not me. 2 years ago I could buy the car I wanted, now I cannot. They CLAIM it’s due to a ‘chip shortage’, but that’s funny - why is the ‘chip shortage’ only affecting chips used in cars, since I can buy anything else that I want that uses chips (or not)?
Seems to me that auto companies would simply bid-up the price of chips to the point that they got top priority, even if it costs them an extra $500 or so for a $50,000 car, and with that any chip shortage should be seen on the bottom end, cheap stuff, like $10 phone chargers.
Something not adding up here...perhaps the idea is to limit our purchasing of fossil fuel cars until we’re forced to buy EVs?
I suppose you are not associated with electronics manufacturing. There has indeed been a shortage of micro-controllers. I have redesigned four products in order to use devices that were anticipated to become available. Only now can I purchase the devices for the new designs. Those for the old designs are still slated for delivery around December of 2024. A great many of the smaller scale CPUs seem to have gone extinct.