I've been actively tracking the whole thing for a couple of years now.
It's pretty much exactly like the capacitor famine, which, we are actually at the tail end of.
You can blame a couple of things for the whole mess, which are very similar to...
I use chipquilk stuff here exclusively.
Both the regular and low temp stuff is fabulous, and the flux is very easy to remove unlike a lot of competitor's offerings.
Basically I use the entire product line for SMD.
As for thruhole, I use MG...
Not such a big deal, @Paul Thanks for all the efforts on the chip, I really learned a huge amount.
I too have been hit hard by NXP not getting all sorts of MCU's that I use.
Not entirely sure what their problem is, if it is some sort of effort to...