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 * [[http://robotseed.com/index.php?id_lang=2|Robotseed]], Smoothie lead contributing company ( **Intermittent stock**, reservations can be made via [[mailto:wolf.arthur@gmail.com|email]]. If you are in a hurry, try Robosprout above instead ) * [[http://robotseed.com/index.php?id_lang=2|Robotseed]], Smoothie lead contributing company ( **Intermittent stock**, reservations can be made via [[mailto:wolf.arthur@gmail.com|email]]. If you are in a hurry, try Robosprout above instead )
 * [[https://www.amazon.fr/Smoothieboard-5XC-SmoothieBoard-SB-1-0/dp/B00TIYS7S6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480984970&sr=8-1&keywords=smoothieboard|Robotseed on Amazon]] ( France ) * [[https://www.amazon.fr/Smoothieboard-5XC-SmoothieBoard-SB-1-0/dp/B00TIYS7S6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480984970&sr=8-1&keywords=smoothieboard|Robotseed on Amazon]] ( France )
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 +==== Worldwide shortages ====
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 +As you might have heard in the news, there are worldwide shortages of a lot of chips.
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 +This has had massive impact on our ability to produce Smoothieboard v1, and to make progress on Smoothieboard v2.
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 +We currently have managed to produce boards, and there should be stock for the foreseeable future, but this is a constant fight to stay in stock, and you can expect at *some point*, we'll have shortages again like we had beginning of 2021.
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 +The chips are also much more expensive than normal. We were able to get *some* at higher-than-normal-but-not-crazy prices some weeks back (this severely reduces our margins, but nor the time being we have decided not to change our prices and to keep all of the effort/cost on our side of the equation rather than on users' side), but at the time of this writing (May 2021), the only chips available have 1000%+ price markups: https://www.win-source.net/nxp-lpc1769fbd100.html . If we end up having to produce boards with those new chip prices, we won't be able to keep the prices the same anymore.
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 +Hopefully all of this calms down and fixes itself as 2021 progresses. We'll keep you informed.
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