STM32F072RBT and others is No Stock Available

You will not get a satisfying answer on a public forum.

Approach a ST salesman or an official distributor.

Other vendors have the same problem, not only in the electronics/MCU business.

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00000PSUgLSAX/helloare-you-in-trouble-buying-a-stm32f030i-have-trouble-buying-stm32f030-in-the-middle-east-in-most-stores-the-stock-of-stm32f030-is-zerohas-the-production-of-the-series-stopped-or-is-this-deficiency-due-to-the-coronavirus

@Imen DAHMEN​ , is there any revision of the statement given in the above linked post?

Thanks,

Jan

Some official lead time estimator is still appreciated...

Gentlemen. This is a catastrophe. We're in a panic. We use several models of STM32 microcontrollers (030, 051, 072) in our products. And we can't buy everything. Replacement for other models or packaging this time. It alsow non stock. Moving to Texas and Microchip takes even longer.

Not just the ST MCUs either. I need to replace an accelerometer in an existing design, since the one I was using is A) out of stock (worldwide), B) EOL as of 2021.12.01, and C) manufacturer is quoting 40 wk lead time.

I was happy to find the STMicro LIS2xxx family, especially with the IIS2DH variant that targets industrial electronic designs, so comes with a 10-year supply guarantee.

Current stock: 5, in Europe. Period.

What good is a 10-year supply guarantee if you let your distribution run out of stock, YOU don't maintain stock, AND you quote 34 week leadtime?

That doesn't sound like a commitment to 'availability' to me!

This week, I've seen a couple thousands of 'F042 appearing and leaving within hours, at Avnet's EMEA site. And I believe what appeared on the public "marketplace" were leftovers, Avnet surely fulfilled preexisting orders first.

What I wanted to say with this is, that there is a trickle coming down, but it's getting quickly bought out by folks who either speculate or desperately try to stockpile.

JW

One way is to harvest chips from existing products:

1) Cover chip pins with some SnBi soldering paste to lower melting temperature of existing lead free paste.

2) Heat-up on heating table with good temperature control, extract chip and perform cleanup with low-temperature iron and desoldering wick.

p.s. I can offer pcb and firmware re-design for a different MCU series (h7,f4,f1,g0, etc.) , my e-mail is in profile.