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by Joel_Mckay 491 days ago
"mass produced hardware doesn’t run into the problem"

Happens all the time, as a production model may take a long time to make it through development and lab certification.

In general, large firms will try to warehouse spools for some bespoke design, but the 3 year contact-oxidation garbage-clock starts the second the component spool/tray leaves the manufacturer.

Thus, one may try to mitigate supply chain instability, but in the end you are still just better off avoiding unicorn parts in your work to begin with... Longer chip lot runs with multiple suppliers having identical packages is usually safer. YMMV =3