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Online RoGeorgeTopic starter

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Digilent wants to get rid of 3,000 PCBs, and quickly
« on: November 02, 2020, 04:18:16 pm »
Not idea if it's still valid, found about it from Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2020/11/01/hackaday-links-november-1-2020/

and the link is to a Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/jke3g0/so_uhhhh_does_anyone_need_about_3000_purple_pcb/

the boards were populated and in Taiwan, so the one who takes them in bulk will probably need to pay import taxes, VAT, etc.

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Re: Digilent wants to get rid of 3,000 PCBs, and quickly
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2020, 09:46:11 pm »
Theoretically they could be valued at $5, just that customs will rake you over the coals to prove it. Although they don't want these boards used so, its not useful to anyone here.

The interesting part here is they ordered 3,000 units from the start. I'm guessing they made projections based off of the AD/DD products, perhaps they sell several thousand per year.
Then maybe there was some calculation based on volume discounts starting at the 1,000 component mark.

MCP6H82 $1, mrf24wg0ma $19, PIC32MZ2048 $10. So might be in the $30-40 BOM range? Depending on what discounts they get.

https://store.digilentinc.com/openscope-mz-open-source-all-in-one-instrumentation/
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Re: Digilent wants to get rid of 3,000 PCBs, and quickly
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2020, 04:48:37 am »
The first comment in the Reddit is funny: "it must be tough to differentiate yourselves from the cheap knock-offs of products from established brands" --- as if Digilent couldn't look anything like Agilent ::)
 


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