 This week, the chips that we can't get are from microchip and it's kind of devastating for a lot of us out here because you all know lots of chips are from microchips. So Lady Aida, what's the chips that we really can't get that we really, really need this week? Okay, this week's chip shortage is like a very popular chip, one of the first chips that we used in kits. One knows this is the ATMEGA 328, sometimes called the 328P, which is a lower power version. We use, you know, two versions, the TQFN and TQFP version. Honestly, I always take the QFN because I can always put a QFN where QFP was. I can't always do the other way around, but we both have both on orders. Here's the webpage. What I thought was interesting is actually this is not recommended for new designs, which I've noticed, I think I mentioned on the Descalade Aida, the LSM9DS1 from ST, which is a sensor that people really loved also is NRND. It's a little scary because this is a very popular chip. That said, I don't think they're going to discontinue it. I think they're just saying, hey, this chip is over 10 years old, 15 years old now. Yeah, and we're seeing 2023 and they have a preferred partner program. We're part of that. The stuff in advance and the days just keep changing. What products do we use? We use this in the Feather 328P that we can't make right now, the Metro 328. We ordered these back in 2021, a year and a half ago almost, when it was like 52-week lead time. I don't know, maybe I was optimistic. I was like, well, I believe you, 52-week lead time I'll order now and I need this many in a year. It's over a year now and all of our orders have been pushed out. Another year, so we might not get it for two years. This is affecting a lot of schools. It's affecting educators. A lot of people making kits, a lot of people making projects. The stuff that we make and sell is usually for people to help others make and sell and become engineers. That's right. It's dev boards. It's ironic. You can actually get a dev board for cheaper than individual chip now. We don't sell the individual chips. We always put them on dev boards for people to learn with, to write code with. It's a platform for this chip and we've supported this chip and we've written a ton of code for it over the last 15 years. So I'm not asking for anything other than please ship the chips that we ordered over a year ago in the timeline that was originally promised to us. Yeah, it's not like a special favor. It's just like, we just want the stuff we ordered and paid for it from over a year ago. Even if there is things that the companies want to start bundling like, oh, we don't have enough chips, well, how about you allocate some to the companies that are doing the most open source code for that chip? Yeah, all we're doing is making more developers and getting it to students and kids. It's on the Digi-Key site. You can see zero in stock. Never, forever. This is what everything looks like always and forever. Zero in stock. Please, please, please. How many do we need? We need 2,000 just to tide us over. We did order 15,000 a year ago with the expectation that we would get them. We have money more than that on order. It's just that that was the order that we booked back in March, 2021. But yeah, I think even a reel of 2,000 or 4,000 would tide us over. If we really aren't getting it for another year, we need about 8,000 to 10,000 at least. And Sonia Chet says the 328p QFN company quoted them $40 per chip, which is ridiculous. You should be a dollar 25. And then for the QFP ones, some companies are starting to use the clones because they have no choice. It's actually a problem because the clones are not, there's actually code that we've seen that does not run well on the clones or they don't, it's like they act weird. So those clones are not. I wouldn't use them because I think that there would be problems with some libraries, especially when you're really using all the interrupts and you're using the timers. I don't think those clones do a very, they don't do a 100% job. And that's this week's chip shortage. We'll see you next week because this ain't ending.