Quarter 3 Electronic Component Market Conditions Update
August 18, 2021 Leave a comment

Is the contraints story real? Why yes, it is! Every day our purchasing department, along with every purchasing department in the EMS Industry, is working diligently to ensure components are available to continue the production of our customer’s products. Changing prices and availability by the hour is not an uncommon phenomenon. The material constraint has not left one country or one consumer untouched. There will not be much relief experienced with continued demand, Covid shutdowns, transportation challenges, and increase pricing. As Burton Industries continues to look forward to problem-solving solutions, our customers continue to move their products to market.
Attached is a summary of component lead times and pricing trends referenced from the “Future Market Conditions Report” for Quarter 3, 2021.
-Batteries: Stable pricing and stable lead times 16-24 weeks
-Connectivity:
-Wi-Fi Modules: Mix of stable pricing with some increased lead times: 20-30 weeks
-Bluetooth Modules: Increase pricing with significant increase in lead times: 24-52 weeks
-Discretes: Pricing and lead times increasing across the board.
-Electromechanical:
-Switches: Stable pricing and lead times 10-24 weeks
-Fans: Mix of increased pricing with stable lead times 12-26 weeks
-High End:
-Microchip: No change on lead time and continued increased pricing for MCU (8 bit & 32 bit), PHY/Ethernet, USB, and 32 bit MPU 30-55 weeks
-NXP: Pricing increase for 8 bit MCU, Automotive, and Network Processors. Increase in lead times for all above including 32 bit MCU. Automotive allocation and 26-52 weeks on the rest.
-Renesas: Stable lead times and pricing Automotive, increase of lead times and pricing on 8 bit MCU, stable lead times with increased pricing for 32 bit MPU, and increased lead times and steady pricing for 32 bit MCU. Average lead times 30 weeks
-STI: Allocation on 8 bit MCU, Automotive, and 32 bit MCU with increased pricing. 32 bit MPU has increase in lead time and pricing 20-26 weeks
Passives:
-Trimmers & Pots: increased pricing and lead times 10-20 weeks
-Electrolytic: Significant increase in lead times with increased pricing. Lead times 18-49 weeks
-Capacitors (film): Mix of stable pricing with stable lead times of 12-36 weeks
-Capacitors (tantalum): Mix of stable pricing with increased lead times 20-50 weeks
-Capacitors (polymer tantalum): Mix of stable pricing with mix of lead times 20-30 weeks
-Filters: Mix of stable pricing and increased lead times 20- 26 weeks
-Inductors: Mix of stable pricing and increased lead times 14-40 weeks
-Fixed Resistors: Increased pricing and stable lead times 30-52 weeks
-Resistor Networks: Increased pricing and stable lead times 15-40 weeks
-Surface Mount General Capacitors (ceramic): Overall, pricing steady with lead times of 20-28 weeks
At Burton Industries, our team continues to look at alternative solutions to all component shortages. If we cannot source the part due to availability, price, or lead time; we look at additional vendors outside our supply chain. If we continue to have issues, we issue an ECR (Engineering Change Request). Our engineers will work with your engineers to redesign and engineer the PCB assembly. The goal with an ECR is to change the engineering of the product to ensure the components needed are available and there is no compromise to the quality of the product.
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