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How is Chipageddon affecting you?
coppice:
--- Quote from: tom66 on November 15, 2022, 11:17:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on November 11, 2022, 12:32:21 pm ---If you block out vendors one by one as they give you a bad experience you'll end up with nobody to buy from at all. Not every vendor has been a good supplier at one time, but EVERY vendor who has been around for a while has been through a period when they are a nightmare to work with.
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The difference is some suppliers have kept SME's supplied via distributors. Off the top of my head these have not been so bad:
Microchip
Fairchild
Xilinx (less so nowadays, perhaps post AMD)
Maxim
Linear Tech/ADI
Whereas these companies are on a "don't design in unless you have no choice" list:
TI
ST Micro
Bosch
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The companies that served you well this time will probably serve you badly next time around, and vice versa. This is the historical pattern. Through a 40 year career you will eventually be blocking everyone.
tom66:
--- Quote from: coppice on November 15, 2022, 11:28:17 pm ---The companies that served you well this time will probably serve you badly next time around, and vice versa. This is the historical pattern. Through a 40 year career you will eventually be blocking everyone.
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I'm not sure that's true - but, you're saying that reputation of a supplier doesn't come into the question as to whether you design parts in? Reputation on all aspects - not just availability, but support, documentation, component quality, lifecycle etc. It took many years before I was OK to design Maxim parts back in, and their ability to supply during chipageddon has helped that. TI will need to work very hard to get their otherwise previously OK reputation back.
To be clear I am not saying "never TI", I am saying "seriously consider avoiding TI". TI have had other black marks in the past, their FAEs are basically all gone now, and they don't work with distributor FAEs so it's next to impossible to get support on their parts as a SME.
Smokey:
I have a new project that needs an FPGA. I did a Digikey search:
Product Index->Integrated Circuits (ICs)->Embedded->FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array)
So that's all FPGAs. The only filters I used are:
"In Stock", "Exclude Marketplace", "Active".
Results are.....
.... 187 of 25,407 Results
!!
KE5FX:
Well, that can't be right, the Wall Street Journal says the shortage is over, and there is now a glut.
SiliconWizard:
0.7%, that isn't bad. :-DD
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