Chip Delivery Time Surpasses 20 Weeks, Impacting Availability of New Windows 11 Machines

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Nobody should be surprised at this point to hear stories about how manufacturers from all over the world are struggling to cope with chip shortages. What might be surprising, though, is how bad the situation has become over the last few months.



As indicated by the latest data from Susquehanna Financial Group, the gap between ordering a chip and having it delivered has widened to an especially worrisome extent. Chip-starved companies now have to wait more than 20 weeks to have their orders fulfilled, which, according to Bloomberg’s coverage, is an increase of more than eight days from what manufacturers were already faced with earlier this summer.



While a whole range of components that include logic chips used in cars, industrial equipment, and home electronics are affected, what might make the impact especially glaring in the eyes of the...

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Holy crap.. we're about to order some 56 new cpus worth of servers. We were planning on a 100 day lead time.. looks more like 200 day now if this holds true.