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How is Chipageddon affecting you?
SiliconWizard:
Not sure about the small ones, but Maxim for instance certainly regained significant market and trust thanks to the shortage.
Many companies that had basically striked Maxim off their list - for chronic poor availability and parts getting obsolete with little warning - started considering Maxim again as they have tended to do better than average ever since the shortage started.
tom66:
I've heard from an MPS sales rep that they became a lot more interesting as TI has failed to keep the market supplied.
Certainly they won several part design-ins on a recent product, it's not huge volumes but their parts seem to be at least as good as TI's (maybe a few more passives required) but cheaper and availability is better, so that could get them a lot of business.
Longer term I suspect TI will regret not supplying the SME's.
JPortici:
--- Quote from: Smokey on November 19, 2022, 10:23:28 pm ---I just had a thought...
Because of shortages, designers are forced to use parts from smaller companies that are only in stock because no one wanted to use them before the shortages.
I wonder how many of those smaller companies will be able to capitalize on the sales/exposure boost and move up to middle or big guys themselves....
--- End quote ---
One thing for sure: Smaller, even local (national only) distis that carry brands that the big boys don't (namely chinese brands) are becoming very, very big.
Smokey:
--- Quote from: JPortici on November 20, 2022, 07:29:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Smokey on November 19, 2022, 10:23:28 pm ---I just had a thought...
Because of shortages, designers are forced to use parts from smaller companies that are only in stock because no one wanted to use them before the shortages.
I wonder how many of those smaller companies will be able to capitalize on the sales/exposure boost and move up to middle or big guys themselves....
--- End quote ---
One thing for sure: Smaller, even local (national only) distis that carry brands that the big boys don't (namely chinese brands) are becoming very, very big.
--- End quote ---
All you need is at total of 20 years of experience and a couple "serial entrepreneurs"...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/manufacture/who-is-microchipusa-com/
JPortici:
--- Quote from: Smokey on November 20, 2022, 07:58:16 am ---
--- Quote from: JPortici on November 20, 2022, 07:29:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Smokey on November 19, 2022, 10:23:28 pm ---I just had a thought...
Because of shortages, designers are forced to use parts from smaller companies that are only in stock because no one wanted to use them before the shortages.
I wonder how many of those smaller companies will be able to capitalize on the sales/exposure boost and move up to middle or big guys themselves....
--- End quote ---
One thing for sure: Smaller, even local (national only) distis that carry brands that the big boys don't (namely chinese brands) are becoming very, very big.
--- End quote ---
All you need is at total of 20 years of experience and a couple "serial entrepreneurs"...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/manufacture/who-is-microchipusa-com/
--- End quote ---
Nah, not like that. I've been recently made contact with a local supplier (fun fact, for 30 years they were based in the building behind my school and i literally never heard of them before), they are the italian distributors for a couple of chinese brands (including GEEHY) that have been delivering pin to pin compatible alternatives to STM32 and the likes, with actual stock, four weeks lead time during all 2022. You can imagine how business has been going for them
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