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[CounterPillow]

Not sure what happend to the regional distributor idea that Pine64 wanted to implement this year, but if there was a Japanese one they could probably take pre-orders for a batch of PineBook Pros with a different layout.

Perhaps they're waiting for the alleged "global chip shortages" to end.
I say alleged, simply because I can't see this shortage anywhere, neither any evidence of it other than overseas stores just saying so.

Here's some evidence: https://twitter.com/CounterPillow/status...8949615622

Wasn't very hard to find.

Here's LCSC advertising not just having parts, but also having backorders open. Do you think they'd do this if there wasn't a global shortage?


Here's Microchip advertising that their silicon carbide line is not backed up as hard as others:


And here's a BBC article about the issue, which I guess counts as not "an overseas store".

I hope this suffices to convince you that there isn't some conspiracy, but that high consumer demand is genuinely putting a strain on supply chains.