It’s hard to do in scale operations, believe me.
Two words: Component backlog.
It is CRUSHING the industry right now. Lead times measured in double-digit months for almost everything.
Tantulum capacitors are back. Why? Because they are available.
So, you’re backlogged on just about everything else, but you’ve got plenty of signal conditioners?
And simple matters, because ultimately all of these parts interact. Why won’t this circuit go to 7V like it is supposed to? Why is the current a fraction of what it should be? How come I get an intermittent problem with this op amp?
Well, it might be because this little thing over here sits here doing nothing until somebody activates it, or until someone logs in.
To keep it hidden had to be hard.
Everyone is denying it this morning of course, but Bloomberg wouldn’t have run the story if they didn’t have the sources.
Their terminals are everywhere in Wall Street. Not stupid. Mendacious? Yup. Stupid, no.
im fully aware of the mlcc shortages,, that keeps me busy 2nd sourcing these days..
keeping it hidden isn’t that hard when a lot people are complicit in the process ..
oh well, happy circuits !!