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TI is losing engineering customers, and it appears they could not care less as is evident by the spin and lack of transparency on their website. I wonder if TI's shareholders know about how they are treating engineers who are a source for future business.
As long as TI keeps the big customers happy, there has to be at least SOME engineers that still like them?
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TI is losing engineering customers, and it appears they could not care less as is evident by the spin and lack of transparency on their website. I wonder if TI's shareholders know about how they are treating engineers who are a source for future business.
As long as TI keeps the big customers happy, there has to be at least SOME engineers that still like them?
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TI is losing engineering customers, and it appears they could not care less as is evident by the spin and lack of transparency on their website. I wonder if TI's shareholders know about how they are treating engineers who are a source for future business.
As long as TI keeps the big customers happy, there has to be at least SOME engineers that still like them?
It's not that i want to use TI parts, it's just that TI has (some) LDOs that are difficult to replace, load switches that are very difficult to replace, opamps that are performing better than their equivalent from other manufacturers
Hey, be glad it isn't "gate array-gate" or some stupid scandal like that.
Tim
Hey, be glad it isn't "gate array-gate" or some stupid scandal like that.
TimHaven't you seen today's exclusive or-gate coverage? New claims are being added as I speak.
Hey, be glad it isn't "gate array-gate" or some stupid scandal like that.
TimHaven't you seen today's exclusive or-gate coverage? New claims are being added as I speak.Very wild claims, one must admit...
"Chip-a" what? Who makes up these daft names?
"Chip-a" what? Who makes up these daft names?What would you suggest?
Because that's how language works... something-geddons, something-gates -- memes, all of it. You don't have to like it, and I'm not being apologetic here, just explaining, it happens. Sometimes language changes, sometimes it doesn't; but it's inevitable sooner or later.
Tim
To provide some balance to this subtopic: This is one of the things I've always appreciated about Microchip. They give great support even to small customers. One of their inside sales folks once told me (paraphrased) "We understand that today's small customers are tomorrow's large customers, and we want you to still like us then."
If there was only a shortage of ARM Cortex processors, it would without doubt be called Armageddon
Because that's how language works... something-geddons, something-gates -- memes, all of it. You don't have to like it, and I'm not being apologetic here, just explaining, it happens. Sometimes language changes, sometimes it doesn't; but it's inevitable sooner or later.
Tim
"Chip-a" what? Who makes up these daft names?What would you suggest?
How about “the chip shortage”. - Why does everything have to be “branded” with some melodramatic title?
To confirm my suspicion the disti's analytics are screwing us over, try load up your cart with semi's and see what happens to those items. Just as an experimentAll right, done. I've taken a screen shot of my current DigiKey cart, which consists of five ICs: two microcontrollers, a quad op-amp, a switching regulator, and a battery charger. I'll check back Monday after work, just in case these bots only work Monday to Friday.Update: None of the parts sold out from under me.
5 IC's is not going to trigger anything. That's a flea fart. Lastest time, I had qty. 20 (all they had in stock) DSP about $1,000 in the cart, and gone in the hour.
Some people believe the same thing happens when they shop for airline tickets, i.e. the prices go up when "they" know you are searching for that particular journey... Could do with some scientific testing/debunking too!
Some people believe the same thing happens when they shop for airline tickets, i.e. the prices go up when "they" know you are searching for that particular journey... Could do with some scientific testing/debunking too!
But there IS dynamic pricing in air fares ! Maybe not in the simplistic way the conspiracy prone think. Airlines try to maximize load factor times ticket price right up to departure. A consumer visible method is with stand-by tickets but it goes way beyond that. In Canada there are 2 majors serving domestic travel; Air Canada and West Jet with West Jet being the Southwest Airlines model type of operation. Some years back there was a court case against a West Jet Manager who had obtained login credentials for the Air Canada reservations system and was skimming their system to optimize West Jet per ticket pricing dynamically on various competing routes.