I started a new project last week and I chose my STM32 by sorting by stock High -> Low. A year ago it wasn't even a consideration (I make low volume stuff).
I sent a big complicated board to manufacturing a month ago. I was making changes up to the last minute based on availability. One of the parts went out of stock and I provided an alternate part number. A week ago my assembler contacted me and said that went out of stock as well. I'm a bit pissed off that they didn't order it when they confirmed the change and there was plenty of stock, but I'll cut them some slack because they're in Houston. Now there's no stock of the part anywhere in the world except a single Aliexpress store. I can't overstate how strange it is to see such widespread availability problems. Pretty soon I'll have to design things with nothing but discrete transistors.
I sent a big complicated board to manufacturing a month ago. I was making changes up to the last minute based on availability. One of the parts went out of stock and I provided an alternate part number. A week ago my assembler contacted me and said that went out of stock as well. I'm a bit pissed off that they didn't order it when they confirmed the change and there was plenty of stock, but I'll cut them some slack because they're in Houston. Now there's no stock of the part anywhere in the world except a single Aliexpress store. I can't overstate how strange it is to see such widespread availability problems. Pretty soon I'll have to design things with nothing but discrete transistors.