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					<description><![CDATA[The main pain point: a perfect storm of costs and visibility The number one pain point for industrial buyers in 2026 is not an outright shortage like 2021-2022. It is the unpredictable volatility across pricing, lead times, and geopolitics simultaneously, making any planning extremely difficult. Lead times climbed steadily for 12 months before peaking with a dramatic spike in March 2026, a 67% increase in a single month between February and March, with lead times reaching 40 weeks on certain components. The market had never truly normalized after the post-Covid shortage cycle. What makes the situation particularly toxic: When tariffs…]]></description>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The main pain point: a perfect storm of costs and visibility</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The number one pain point for industrial buyers in 2026 is not an outright shortage like 2021-2022. It is the unpredictable volatility across pricing, lead times, and geopolitics simultaneously, making any planning extremely difficult.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lead times climbed steadily for 12 months before peaking with a dramatic spike in March 2026, a 67% increase in a single month between February and March, with lead times reaching 40 weeks on certain components. The market had never truly normalized after the post-Covid shortage cycle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>What makes the situation particularly toxic:</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When tariffs are announced, threatened, or merely rumored, rational buyers pull purchases forward. This demand compression reduces available stock and drives spot market premiums up almost overnight. Components that were stable at book price for much of 2025 have seen spot market premiums multiply by 2 to 5 times, and even higher in some categories.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The most significant hidden pain point is not price itself. It is part identity and data mismatch: teams waste hours confirming that the reference listed in the BOM is actually the same part a supplier is quoting.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Only 18% of companies have achieved end-to-end visibility across their supply chain. For the majority, the reality looks like fragmented email threads, missed messages due to time zone differences, and the constant fear that something important has slipped through the cracks.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The hardest components to source (excluding memory)</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>SiC MOSFETs and IGBTs: maximum criticality</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">SiC MOSFETs, a key technology for electric vehicles and onboard chargers, are in a critical situation at ON Semiconductor. Demand from automotive manufacturers is outpacing available capacity. EV procurement teams must treat SiC allocation as a strategic priority through at least the first half of 2026. Lead times for AEC-Q100 qualified 32-bit MCUs have reached 52 weeks or more across several families. These parts are expected to remain difficult to source through 2028.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Industrial and automotive MCUs on mature nodes</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The MCU price war ended in 2025. STMicro, TI, NXP, and Infineon announced price increases effective April 2026, with TI reaching up to 85% increases on certain part numbers. Foundries on mature nodes (40nm to 180nm) critical for industrial MCUs are sold out for all of 2026. STMicro MCU lead times had already reached 55 weeks and the situation is likely to worsen.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Analog and power management components (PMIC, op-amps, ADC/DAC)</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The most acute pressure is concentrated on components manufactured on older process nodes, from 90nm to 350nm. These nodes produce analog ICs, power management chips, discretes, and interface chips that appear on virtually every industrial BOM. Precision op-amps, ADCs, DACs, and voltage references used in industrial sensors and medical equipment are seeing a return to allocation. Analog Devices applied 15% price increases across its entire catalog, and 30% on approximately 1,000 military-grade references.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>GaN: emerging but already constrained</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Chinese export controls on gallium and germanium, implemented in mid-2025, triggered alarm bells as China dominates these supply chains. This adds supply risk for compound semiconductor components such as GaAs and GaN devices.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>High-speed connectors and specialty MLCCs</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">High-speed connectors and multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are experiencing measurable tightening as hyperscale data center construction accelerates. Sourcing teams working on data center, industrial computing, or AI-edge applications should proactively build buffer stock in these categories. Murata announced increases of 15% to 35% on passives for AI servers. KEMET (Yageo) raised polymer tantalum capacitor prices by 15% to 30% in Q1 2026.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Legacy logic components and end-of-life parts</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many 74xx, CD4000, and older interface families are end-of-life or severely backordered. Tantalum capacitors, high-voltage MLCCs, and polymer aluminum capacitors critical for defense and aerospace continue to face shortages.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A special case: Nexperia</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nexperia&#8217;s wafer supply has been halted since October 2025 following export control measures, meaning there is no raw material feed for new production. The company has provided no confirmed timeline for supply resumption. For teams with Nexperia-sourced discretes, logic ICs, or transistors in their BOM, the practical response is to pursue approved alternative sourcing without delay.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Summary</h3>



<figure class="wp-block-table"><table class="has-fixed-layout"><thead><tr><th>Family</th><th>Tension level</th><th>Typical lead time</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>SiC MOSFETs</td><td>Critical</td><td>40 to 60 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>Auto/industrial MCUs (AEC-Q100)</td><td>Critical</td><td>40 to 55 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>Analog ICs / PMIC</td><td>High</td><td>30 to 40 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>GaN</td><td>Rising</td><td>20 to 35 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>High-speed connectors</td><td>Rising</td><td>20 to 30 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>Specialty MLCCs</td><td>Moderate</td><td>16 to 24 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>Legacy logic (74xx family)</td><td>Spot shortages</td><td>Variable</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The strategy that sets successful teams apart is anticipating 12 to 18 months ahead, continuously auditing the BOM, qualifying second sources before they are needed, and abandoning just-in-time practices for critical part numbers.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Are some of these components on your BOM?</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you are facing allocation issues, extended lead times, or unexpected price increases on any of the components mentioned in this article, ARTRONIK can help. We specialize in sourcing hard-to-find, allocated, and end-of-life electronic components through our global network of franchised and pre-approved suppliers.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[The global semiconductor crisis of 2020-2022 feels like a distant memory. Lead times have normalised for many references, stocks have been replenished, and some buyers have fallen back into bad habits: ordering just-in-time, from a single source, from the big names in the industry. That is precisely where the danger lies today. Because while the widespread general shortage is behind us, the risk in 2025 and 2026 is no longer a global scarcity. It is component-level risk. And that targeted risk can be just as devastating for a production line. A Perfect Storm Across Multiple Segments Memory: Unprecedented Price Increases…]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The global semiconductor crisis of 2020-2022 feels like a distant memory. Lead times have normalised for many references, stocks have been replenished, and some buyers have fallen back into bad habits: ordering just-in-time, from a single source, from the big names in the industry. That is precisely where the danger lies today.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Because while the widespread general shortage is behind us, the risk in 2025 and 2026 is no longer a global scarcity. It is component-level risk. And that targeted risk can be just as devastating for a production line.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A Perfect Storm Across Multiple Segments</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Memory: Unprecedented Price Increases</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The memory market is currently generating the most alarm signals. Since Q4 2025, the major memory suppliers — Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron — have shifted to allocation-only contract models, prioritising large hyperscale and AI players. Lead times for DDR4 and DDR5 now exceed 30 to 40 weeks, while HBM demand absorbs a growing share of production capacity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The result: severe shortages in memory components are projected with price increases of up to 50% by mid-2026. For industrial manufacturers and integrators who have not anticipated this, the bill will be steep.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Discrete and Analog Components: Nexperia Creates a Domino Effect</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Nexperia crisis continues to ripple through the discrete components market. Although Nexperia China has begun producing its own chips and Nexperia Netherlands continues its expansion in Malaysia, lead times remain elevated across MOSFETs, bipolar components and protection devices.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This case perfectly illustrates the fragility of supply chains relying on a single supplier: the Nexperia situation demonstrated how quickly a single-supplier dependency can cascade across an entire sector.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">NXP: Lead Times Exceeding 52 Weeks</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The S32K automotive MCU family, particularly the S32K1 series, remains under pressure with lead times exceeding 52 weeks in some regions due to sustained demand. The NXP shortage is expected to persist in certain application segments through 2026, with geopolitical risks, long product lifecycles and regulatory constraints continuing to intersect.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Tariffs: A New Structural Factor</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Beyond supply tensions, geopolitics is reshaping the landscape. Industrial buyers entered 2026 with very different semiconductor cost structures compared to two years earlier, primarily due to significant increases in US tariffs on Chinese components. New non-tariff measures around emerging technologies and raw materials — including export restrictions on advanced semiconductors and critical minerals — are adding further pressure to existing trade tensions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">China controls approximately 79% of global tungsten mine production, a material essential to chip manufacturing. Chinese tungsten exports fell by approximately 40% in 2025, with no practical alternative available at scale.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Why Validating a Secondary Source Is No Longer Optional</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Faced with this context, the traditional purchasing strategy — one component, one supplier, one lead time — has become a risky bet. Companies that perform best in volatile supply environments share several characteristics: their engineering teams design with flexibility in mind, their supply chain managers maintain strong distributor relationships, and their manufacturing partners engage early in product development.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Validating a secondary source — that is, qualifying an equivalent component from an alternative manufacturer — offers several concrete advantages:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Production continuity.</strong> In the event of a shortage with your primary supplier, a qualified alternative source allows you to keep the line running without stoppages or emergency surcharges.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Negotiating leverage.</strong> Having a credible alternative gives you real bargaining power on price and lead times with your usual supplier.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Cost reduction.</strong> Asian manufacturers of discrete, analog or power management components often offer direct equivalents (<em>drop-in replacements</em>) to major brands — TI, NXP, Analog Devices — at significantly lower prices, without compromising on quality.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Geopolitical resilience.</strong> A tariff change can make a key supplier unviable or force it to cut production, creating a cascade effect well beyond direct suppliers. Diversifying your sources limits this exposure.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Our Role at ARTRONIK COMPONENTS</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We work directly as representatives and agents for a carefully selected panel of manufacturers offering equivalents to the major brands on the market. This positioning allows us to act quickly, without the constraints of exclusive agreements, to offer you qualified alternatives at the right time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The market is not anticipating a widespread general shortage like 2021. But forecasts point to a series of acute, targeted shortages in specific component categories. It is precisely in these situations that having anticipated — and qualified — a secondary source makes all the difference between a production stoppage and business continuity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Do you have a BOM to analyse, or a component that has been difficult to source? Contact us: we will get back to you within 24 hours.</p>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sources: Deloitte Semiconductor Industry Outlook 2026 · Sourceability Lead Time Reports Q3/Q4 2025 &amp; Q1 2026 · VSE Electronics Supply Chain Outlook 2026 · Suntsu Electronics · 7setronic · Baker McKenzie · Ivalua · Supply Chain Dive</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[Nach zwei Jahren beispielloser Lieferkettenunterbrechungen schöpft die Elektronikkomponentenbranche wieder Luft. Die durchschnittlichen weltweiten Lieferzeiten sind auf unter 14 Wochen gesunken — ein Schwellenwert, der zuletzt vor der Covid-Krise erreicht worden war, die die gesamte Branche in eine anhaltende Abwärtsspirale gezogen hatte. Auf ihrem Höhepunkt überschritten die Lieferzeiten in vielen Komponentenkategorien 26 Wochen, bei einigen kritischen Halbleitern sogar ein Jahr. Heute bewegen sich die Zahlen wieder in die richtige Richtung. Doch wie jeder erfahrene Einkaufsprofi bestätigen wird: Normalisierung ist nicht dasselbe wie Stabilität. Wie es dazu kam Denken wir zurück an das Jahr 2021. Automobilwerke standen still, weil ein zwei Dollar…]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nach zwei Jahren beispielloser Lieferkettenunterbrechungen schöpft die Elektronikkomponentenbranche wieder Luft. Die durchschnittlichen weltweiten Lieferzeiten sind auf unter 14 Wochen gesunken — ein Schwellenwert, der zuletzt vor der Covid-Krise erreicht worden war, die die gesamte Branche in eine anhaltende Abwärtsspirale gezogen hatte. Auf ihrem Höhepunkt überschritten die Lieferzeiten in vielen Komponentenkategorien 26 Wochen, bei einigen kritischen Halbleitern sogar ein Jahr. Heute bewegen sich die Zahlen wieder in die richtige Richtung. Doch wie jeder erfahrene Einkaufsprofi bestätigen wird: Normalisierung ist nicht dasselbe wie Stabilität.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Wie es dazu kam</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Denken wir zurück an das Jahr 2021. Automobilwerke standen still, weil ein zwei Dollar teurer Chip fehlte. Unterhaltungselektronikhersteller ließen Komponenten zu horrenden Kosten per Luftfracht transportieren. Distributoren nannten Lieferzeiten in Monaten, nicht mehr in Wochen. Einkäufer verdoppelten und verdreifachten ihre Bestellungen aus purer Angst — was den Mangel nur noch verschlimmerte.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Ursachen sind gut dokumentiert: ein Nachfrageboom bei Unterhaltungselektronik während der Lockdowns, ein gleichzeitiger Einbruch und Wiederanstieg der Automobilproduktion, ein weltweiter Mangel an Waferfertigungskapazitäten sowie eine Kaskade von Logistikunterbrechungen — von Staus in den Häfen bis zur Blockade des Suezkanals im Jahr 2021. Die Branche wurde auf dem falschen Fuß erwischt, und es bedurfte jahrelanger Kapitalinvestitionen, Kapazitätserweiterungen und schmerzhafter Lagerbestandskorrekturen, um wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu finden.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>„Nach zwei Jahren schwerer Engpässe haben sich die Lieferzeiten in den meisten Komponentenkategorien auf ein Niveau zurückgekehrt, das weitgehend den Normen vor der Pandemie entspricht, mit globalen Durchschnittswerten nun unter 14 Wochen.&#8221;</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— Branchenkonsens, Distributordaten, Q4 2023 / Q1 2024</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Was die Zahlen sagen</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lieferkettentrackingdaten, die bis Anfang 2024 verfügbar sind, bestätigen, dass die globalen durchschnittlichen Lieferzeiten auf rund 14 Wochen zurückgegangen sind — gegenüber einem Höchststand von über 26 Wochen auf dem Höhepunkt der Krise im Jahr 2022, was einer Reduktion von fast 50 % entspricht.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Erholung verlief jedoch nicht gleichmäßig über alle Produktfamilien:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Passive Bauelemente</strong> (MLCCs, Widerstände, Induktivitäten) — zu den am stärksten betroffenen Kategorien gehörend, verzeichneten sie die spektakulärsten Verbesserungen. Das Angebot hat sich substanziell erholt, obwohl die Nachfrage wieder anzuziehen beginnt — eine Entwicklung, die genau beobachtet werden sollte.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Logik-ICs und Mikrocontroller</strong> — auch hier ist die Normalisierung erheblich; viele Standardreferenzen sind nun bei großen Distributoren ab Lager verfügbar, was das Allokationsumfeld von 2021–2022 beendet.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Leistungshalbleiter</strong> (MOSFETs, IGBTs, Dioden) — die Lieferzeiten bleiben etwas angespannter als in anderen Kategorien, gestützt durch strukturelle Nachfrage aus den Bereichen Elektrofahrzeuge und erneuerbare Energien.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KI- und Hochleistungsrechner-Chips</strong> — sie bilden eine eigene Kategorie: Die Nachfrage von Hyperscalern und KI-Accelerator-Herstellern übersteigt weiterhin das Angebot bei Spitzenprodukten, und dieses Segment zeigt keinerlei Anzeichen einer Normalisierung.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Das Problem der Lagerbestandskorrektur</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hier wird das Bild differenzierter. Die Normalisierung der Lieferzeiten ging einher mit einem erheblichen Lageraufbau in der gesamten Lieferkette. Während der Mangeljahre gaben Einkäufer — verständlicherweise — weit über ihren tatsächlichen Bedarf hinaus Bestellungen auf, um sich gegen Verzögerungen und Zuteilungen abzusichern. Nun, da das Angebot die Nachfrage eingeholt hat, haben sich diese überschüssigen Bestellungen in überfüllte Lager verwandelt.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Distributoren sitzen auf erhöhten Lagerbeständen. Viele OEM-Hersteller und Auftragsfertiger arbeiteten noch Komponentenbestände ab, deren Abbau mehrere weitere Quartale in Anspruch nehmen sollte. Diese Überangebotssituation übt Abwärtsdruck auf die Preise aus — kurzfristig eine gute Nachricht für Einkäufer, aber eine Quelle des Margendrucks für Hersteller und Distributoren.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das Angebots-Nachfrage-Ungleichgewicht ist besonders bei passiven Bauelementen sichtbar, wo das Angebotswachstum die Nachfrageerholung seit Mitte 2022 übertroffen hat. Das Risiko eines neuen Anspannungszyklus — nicht unmittelbar, aber potenziell innerhalb der nächsten 12 bis 18 Monate — kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, wenn die Nachfrage von den aktuellen Niveaus aus weiter beschleunigt.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Was dies für Einkaufsteams bedeutet</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Versuchung in einem normalisierten Markt ist es, sich zu entspannen. Lieferzeiten sind handhabbar, Preise sind unter Kontrolle, Lagerbestände sind verfügbar. Doch die asymmetrische Natur des Lieferkettenrisikos spricht klar gegen Selbstgefälligkeit. Der Weg von komfortabler Verfügbarkeit zu akutem Mangel lässt sich in Wochen messen; die Erholung dauert Jahre.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mehrere Faktoren könnten 2024 einen neuen Anspannungszyklus auslösen:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Das geopolitische Risiko bleibt erhöht.</strong> Die Spannungen zwischen den USA und China über Halbleitertechnologieexporte, die Verwundbarkeit taiwanesischer Gießereien und Unterbrechungen in globalen Schifffahrtskorridoren — darunter das Rote Meer, wo Huthi-Angriffe Anfang 2024 bereits den Containerverkehr umleiten — stellen reale Bedrohungen für die Versorgungskontinuität dar.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Die strukturelle Nachfragebeschleunigung</strong> in den Bereichen KI, Elektrofahrzeuge und erneuerbare Energien ist nicht zyklisch. Diese Sektoren werden zunehmend um Leistungshalbleiter, Hochgeschwindigkeitsspeicher und fortschrittliche Packaging-Kapazitäten konkurrieren.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Reshoring-Investitionen</strong> — TSMC in Arizona, Intel in Ohio und Deutschland, Samsung in Texas — sind ernsthaft im Gange, werden aber frühestens 2026 nennenswerte Kapazitätsentlastung bringen. Die Branche bleibt in der Zwischenzeit stark von einer konzentrierten Gruppe asiatischer Gießereien abhängig.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Das strategische Fazit</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Normalisierung der Lieferzeiten Anfang 2024 ist eindeutig eine gute Nachricht. Für Einkaufsteams stellt sie Flexibilität wieder her und reduziert Notfalllagerkosten. Für Entwickler öffnet sie den Zugang zu Komponenten, die jahrelang praktisch nicht verfügbar waren.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Doch die strukturellen Schwachstellen, die die Krise von 2020–2023 aufgedeckt hat, sind nicht verschwunden. Die Unternehmen, die die nächste Unterbrechung am besten bewältigen werden, sind jene, die dieses Fenster relativer Ruhe nutzen, um ihre Lieferantenbasis zu diversifizieren, in Obsoleszenzüberwachung zu investieren und Beziehungen zu zuverlässigen, zertifizierten Komponentenpartnern aufzubauen — anstatt sich ausschließlich auf den Spotmarkt zu verlassen.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bei ARTRONIK COMPONENTS ist genau das der Grund, warum wir unser Netzwerk geprüfter Herstellerpartner kontinuierlich ausbauen — damit unsere Kunden beim nächsten Zyklusschwenk geschützt sind.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Quellen</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Susanne Retzlaff, IHS Markit / S&amp;P Global — Berichte zur Lieferzeitverfolgung elektronischer Bauelemente, 2022–2023</li>



<li>Supplyframe — Component Intelligence Reports, Q3–Q4 2023</li>



<li>ECIA (Electronic Components Industry Association) — North America Electronic Components Sales Report, Q4 2023</li>



<li>Bloomberg / Reuters — Berichterstattung über Schifffahrtsunterbrechungen im Roten Meer, Januar–Februar 2024</li>



<li>TSMC, Intel, Samsung — Offizielle Ankündigungen zu Fab-Investitionen in den USA und Europa, 2022–2023</li>



<li>Earnings Calls der Distributoren (Avnet, Arrow, TTI) — Kommentare zu Lagerbeständen und Nachfrage, Q3–Q4 2023</li>
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		<title>Les délais de livraison se normalisent — mais la vigilance reste de mise</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Après deux années de perturbations sans précédent dans les chaînes d&#8217;approvisionnement, l&#8217;industrie des composants électroniques reprend enfin son souffle. Les délais de livraison moyens à l&#8217;échelle mondiale sont repassés sous les 14 semaines — un seuil qui n&#8217;avait plus été atteint depuis avant la crise du Covid, laquelle avait plongé l&#8217;ensemble du secteur dans une longue spirale. À leur pic, les délais dépassaient 26 semaines pour de nombreuses catégories de composants, et certains semi-conducteurs critiques frôlaient l&#8217;année d&#8217;attente. Aujourd&#8217;hui, les indicateurs évoluent dans le bon sens. Mais comme tout professionnel des achats aguerri vous le dira : normalisation ne signifie…]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Après deux années de perturbations sans précédent dans les chaînes d&#8217;approvisionnement, l&#8217;industrie des composants électroniques reprend enfin son souffle. Les délais de livraison moyens à l&#8217;échelle mondiale sont repassés sous les 14 semaines — un seuil qui n&#8217;avait plus été atteint depuis avant la crise du Covid, laquelle avait plongé l&#8217;ensemble du secteur dans une longue spirale. À leur pic, les délais dépassaient 26 semaines pour de nombreuses catégories de composants, et certains semi-conducteurs critiques frôlaient l&#8217;année d&#8217;attente. Aujourd&#8217;hui, les indicateurs évoluent dans le bon sens. Mais comme tout professionnel des achats aguerri vous le dira : normalisation ne signifie pas stabilité.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Comment en est-on arrivé là ?</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Revenons en 2021. Des usines automobiles fermaient faute d&#8217;une puce à deux dollars. Des fabricants d&#8217;électronique grand public affrétaient des composants par avion à des coûts exorbitants. Les distributeurs annonçaient des délais en mois, et non plus en semaines. Les acheteurs doublaient et triplaient leurs commandes par pure précaution — ce qui ne faisait qu&#8217;aggraver la pénurie.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Les causes profondes ont été largement documentées : une explosion de la demande en électronique grand public pendant les confinements, un effondrement puis un rebond simultané de la production automobile, une pénurie mondiale de capacités de fabrication de plaquettes de silicium, et une cascade de perturbations logistiques — congestion portuaire, blocage du canal de Suez en 2021. Le secteur a été pris de court, et il aura fallu des années d&#8217;investissement en capital, d&#8217;extension de capacités et de douloureuses corrections de stocks pour retrouver un semblant d&#8217;équilibre.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>« Après deux années de fortes contraintes, les délais de livraison dans la plupart des catégories de composants sont revenus à des niveaux globalement conformes aux normes d&#8217;avant la pandémie, avec une moyenne mondiale désormais inférieure à 14 semaines. »</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— Consensus sectoriel, données distributeurs, T4 2023 / T1 2024</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Ce que disent les chiffres</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Les données de suivi des chaînes d&#8217;approvisionnement disponibles jusqu&#8217;au début de 2024 confirment que les délais de livraison moyens mondiaux sont revenus à environ 14 semaines — contre un pic de plus de 26 semaines enregistré au plus fort de la crise en 2022, soit une réduction de près de 50 %.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La reprise n&#8217;a cependant pas été uniforme selon les familles de produits :</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Composants passifs</strong> (MLCCs, résistances, inductances) — parmi les plus touchés pendant la pénurie, ils ont enregistré les améliorations les plus spectaculaires. L&#8217;offre s&#8217;est redressée de façon substantielle, bien que la demande recommence à progresser — une dynamique à surveiller de près.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Circuits logiques et microcontrôleurs</strong> — la normalisation est également significative ; de nombreuses références standard sont désormais disponibles en stock chez les grands distributeurs, mettant fin à l&#8217;environnement d&#8217;allocation de 2021–2022.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Semi-conducteurs de puissance</strong> (MOSFETs, IGBTs, diodes) — les délais restent un peu plus tendus que dans d&#8217;autres catégories, soutenus par une demande structurelle provenant des secteurs du véhicule électrique et des énergies renouvelables.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Puces IA et calcul haute performance</strong> — ils constituent une catégorie à part : la demande des hyperscalers et des fabricants d&#8217;accélérateurs IA continue de dépasser l&#8217;offre pour les composants de pointe, et ce segment ne montre aucun signe de normalisation.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Le problème de la correction des stocks</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">C&#8217;est là que le tableau se nuance. La normalisation des délais s&#8217;est accompagnée d&#8217;une accumulation significative de stocks à travers toute la chaîne d&#8217;approvisionnement. Pendant les années de pénurie, les acheteurs — de façon compréhensible — ont passé des commandes bien supérieures à leurs besoins réels, pour se prémunir contre les retards et les allocations. Maintenant que l&#8217;offre a rattrapé la demande, ces commandes excédentaires se sont traduites par des entrepôts surchargés.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Les distributeurs détiennent des niveaux de stocks élevés. De nombreux fabricants OEM et sous-traitants électroniques écoulaient encore des stocks de composants dont la digestion devait prendre plusieurs trimestres supplémentaires. Cette situation de suroffre exerce une pression à la baisse sur les prix — une bonne nouvelle pour les acheteurs à court terme, mais une source de pression sur les marges pour les fabricants et distributeurs.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Le déséquilibre offre-demande est particulièrement visible dans les composants passifs, où la croissance de l&#8217;offre a dépassé la reprise de la demande depuis mi-2022. Le risque d&#8217;un nouveau cycle de tension — pas immédiatement, mais potentiellement dans les 12 à 18 prochains mois — ne peut être écarté si la demande continue d&#8217;accélérer depuis ses niveaux actuels.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Ce que cela implique pour les équipes achats</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La tentation, dans un marché normalisé, est de relâcher la pression. Les délais sont gérables, les prix sont maîtrisés, les stocks sont disponibles. Mais la nature asymétrique du risque dans les chaînes d&#8217;approvisionnement plaide fermement contre la complaisance. Le chemin d&#8217;une disponibilité confortable vers une pénurie aiguë se mesure en semaines ; le retour à la normale prend des années.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Plusieurs facteurs pourraient déclencher un nouveau cycle de tension en 2024 :</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Le risque géopolitique reste élevé.</strong> Les tensions entre les États-Unis et la Chine autour des exportations de technologies de semi-conducteurs, la vulnérabilité des fonderies taïwanaises, et les perturbations dans les couloirs maritimes mondiaux — notamment en mer Rouge, où les attaques houthies détournent déjà le trafic de conteneurs début 2024 — constituent des menaces bien réelles pour la continuité des approvisionnements.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>L&#8217;accélération structurelle de la demande</strong> dans l&#8217;IA, le véhicule électrique et les énergies renouvelables n&#8217;est pas cyclique. Ces secteurs vont se disputer de façon croissante les semi-conducteurs de puissance, les mémoires haute vitesse et les capacités d&#8217;encapsulation avancées.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Les investissements dans la relocalisation</strong> — TSMC en Arizona, Intel en Ohio et en Allemagne, Samsung au Texas — sont bien engagés, mais ne produiront pas de capacités significatives avant 2026 au plus tôt. Le secteur reste en attendant très dépendant d&#8217;un groupe concentré de fonderies asiatiques.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Ce qu&#8217;il faut retenir</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La normalisation des délais de livraison au début de 2024 est sans ambiguïté une bonne nouvelle. Pour les équipes achats, elle restaure de la flexibilité et réduit les coûts de stocks d&#8217;urgence. Pour les équipes de conception, elle rouvre l&#8217;accès à des composants qui étaient pratiquement indisponibles pendant des années.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mais les vulnérabilités structurelles mises en évidence par la crise de 2020–2023 n&#8217;ont pas disparu. Les entreprises qui navigueront le mieux à travers la prochaine perturbation sont celles qui profitent de cette fenêtre de relative accalmie pour diversifier leur base de fournisseurs, investir dans la surveillance de l&#8217;obsolescence et nouer des relations avec des partenaires en composants fiables et certifiés — plutôt que de s&#8217;appuyer exclusivement sur le marché spot.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Chez ARTRONIK COMPONENTS, c&#8217;est précisément pour cette raison que nous continuons d&#8217;élargir notre réseau de partenaires fabricants vérifiés — pour qu&#8217;au prochain retournement de cycle, nos clients soient protégés.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Sources</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Susanne Retzlaff, IHS Markit / S&amp;P Global — Rapports de suivi des délais de livraison de composants électroniques, 2022–2023</li>



<li>Supplyframe — Component Intelligence Reports, T3–T4 2023</li>



<li>ECIA (Electronic Components Industry Association) — North America Electronic Components Sales Report, T4 2023</li>



<li>Bloomberg / Reuters — Couverture des perturbations de la navigation en mer Rouge, janvier–février 2024</li>



<li>TSMC, Intel, Samsung — Annonces officielles sur les investissements en fonderies aux États-Unis et en Europe, 2022–2023</li>



<li>Appels aux résultats des distributeurs (Avnet, Arrow, TTI) — Commentaires sur les stocks et la demande, T3–T4 2023</li>
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		<title>Lead Times Are Finally Back to Normal — But Don&#8217;t Celebrate Just Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After two years of unprecedented supply chain disruption, the electronic components industry is breathing again. Average global lead times have fallen below 14 weeks — a threshold last seen before the Covid crisis sent the entire industry into a prolonged tailspin. At their worst, lead times exceeded 26 weeks for many component categories, and some critical semiconductors stretched beyond a year. Today, the numbers are moving in the right direction. But as any seasoned procurement professional will tell you, normalisation is not the same as stability. How We Got Here Cast your mind back to 2021. Automotive plants were shutting…]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After two years of unprecedented supply chain disruption, the electronic components industry is breathing again. Average global lead times have fallen below 14 weeks — a threshold last seen before the Covid crisis sent the entire industry into a prolonged tailspin. At their worst, lead times exceeded 26 weeks for many component categories, and some critical semiconductors stretched beyond a year. Today, the numbers are moving in the right direction. But as any seasoned procurement professional will tell you, normalisation is not the same as stability.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">How We Got Here</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cast your mind back to 2021. Automotive plants were shutting down for lack of a $2 chip. Consumer electronics manufacturers were air-freighting components at eye-watering costs. Distributors were quoting lead times in months, not weeks. Buyers were doubling and tripling their orders out of pure fear, which only made the shortage worse.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The root causes were well documented: a surge in consumer electronics demand during lockdowns, a simultaneous collapse and rebound in automotive production, a global shortage of wafer fabrication capacity, and a cascade of logistics disruptions — from port congestion to the Suez Canal blockage of 2021. The industry was caught flat-footed, and it took years of capital investment, capacity expansion and painful inventory correction to find its way back.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>&#8220;After two years of severe constraints, lead times across most component categories have returned to levels broadly consistent with pre-pandemic norms, with average global figures now tracking below 14 weeks.&#8221;</em></p>
<cite>— Industry consensus, distributor data, Q4 2023 / Q1 2024</cite></blockquote>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What the Numbers Say</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Supply chain tracking data available through early 2024 confirms that global average lead times have returned to approximately <strong>14 weeks</strong> — down from a peak of over <strong>26 weeks</strong> recorded at the height of the crisis in 2022. This represents a reduction of nearly 50% from the crisis peak.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The recovery has not been uniform across all product families:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Passive components</strong> (MLCCs, resistors, inductors) saw some of the most dramatic lead time improvements, having been among the most severely affected during the shortage. Supply has recovered substantially, though demand is beginning to move upward again — a dynamic worth monitoring closely.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Logic ICs and microcontrollers</strong> have also seen significant normalisation, with many standard references now available from stock at major distributors, reversing the desperate allocation environment of 2021–2022.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Power semiconductors</strong> (MOSFETs, IGBTs, diodes) remain somewhat tighter than other categories, sustained by structural demand from the electric vehicle and renewable energy sectors.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>AI and high-performance computing chips</strong> are in a category of their own — demand from hyperscalers and AI accelerator manufacturers continues to outstrip supply for leading-edge devices, and this segment shows no sign of normalising.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Inventory Correction Problem</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here is where the picture becomes more nuanced. The normalisation of lead times has come hand in hand with a significant build-up of inventory across the supply chain. During the shortage years, buyers — understandably — placed orders far in excess of their actual requirements, hedging against delays and allocation. Now that supply has caught up, those excess orders have translated into bloated warehouses.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Distributors are sitting on elevated stock levels. Many OEMs and contract manufacturers are working through component inventory that will take several more quarters to digest. This oversupply situation is exerting downward pressure on prices — good news for buyers in the short term, but a source of margin pressure for manufacturers and distributors.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The supply-demand imbalance is particularly visible in passive components, where supply growth has outpaced demand recovery since mid-2022. The risk of a new tightening cycle — not immediately, but potentially within the next 12 to 18 months — cannot be dismissed if demand continues to accelerate from current levels.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What This Means for Procurement Teams</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The temptation, in a normalised market, is to relax. Lead times are manageable, prices are under control, stock is available. But the asymmetric nature of supply chain risk argues strongly against complacency. The journey from comfortable availability to acute shortage can be measured in weeks, while the recovery takes years.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Several factors could trigger a new tightening cycle in 2024:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Geopolitical risk</strong> remains elevated. Tensions between the US and China over semiconductor technology exports, the vulnerability of Taiwan-based foundries, and disruptions in global shipping lanes — including the Red Sea, where Houthi attacks are already diverting container traffic in early 2024 — represent live threats to supply continuity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Structural demand acceleration</strong> in AI, electric vehicles and renewable energy is not cyclical. These sectors will increasingly compete for power semiconductors, high-speed memory and advanced packaging capacity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Reshoring investments</strong> — TSMC in Arizona, Intel in Ohio and Germany, Samsung in Texas — are genuinely underway but will not deliver meaningful capacity relief before 2026 at the earliest. The industry remains heavily dependent on a concentrated group of Asian foundries in the meantime.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Strategic Takeaway</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The normalisation of lead times in early 2024 is unambiguously good news. For procurement teams, it restores flexibility and reduces emergency stock costs. For designers, it reopens access to components that were essentially unavailable for years.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But the structural vulnerabilities exposed by the 2020–2023 crisis have not disappeared. The companies that will navigate the next disruption best are those that use this window of relative calm to diversify their supplier base, invest in obsolescence monitoring, and build relationships with reliable, certified component partners rather than relying solely on the spot market.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At ARTRONIK COMPONENTS, this is precisely why we continue to expand our network of vetted manufacturing partners — ensuring that when the next cycle turns, our customers are protected.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sources</h3>



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<li><strong>Susanne Retzlaff, IHS Markit / S&amp;P Global</strong> — Electronic components lead time tracking reports, 2022–2023</li>



<li><strong>Supplyframe</strong> — <em>Component Intelligence Reports</em>, Q3–Q4 2023</li>



<li><strong>ECIA (Electronic Components Industry Association)</strong> — <em>North America Electronic Components Sales Report</em>, Q4 2023</li>



<li><strong>Bloomberg / Reuters</strong> — Red Sea shipping disruption coverage, January–February 2024</li>



<li><strong>TSMC, Intel, Samsung</strong> — Official announcements on US and European fab investments, 2022–2023</li>



<li><strong>Distributor earnings calls</strong> (Avnet, Arrow, TTI) — Inventory and demand commentary, Q3–Q4 2023</li>
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