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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: Alex Eisenhut on November 04, 2019, 12:36:59 am

Title: Ordering ICs from Chinese manufacturers
Post by: Alex Eisenhut on November 04, 2019, 12:36:59 am

Suppose I want to buy qties of 10 chips from Macro Silicon as a private individual?

http://en.macrosilicon.com/default.asp (http://en.macrosilicon.com/default.asp)

They don't even have datasheets for download, but they say they "provide convenient technical support service for customers".

Hmm, I wonder who they consider "customers"? These chips are used by the barrel for all those dirt-cheap NTSC to HDMI converters out there. I just want to get my sweaty little hands  :-/O on some datasheets and some parts.

I checked LCSC, Banggood, Aliexpress. They don't sell these chips.

Any ideas? I already contacted MS support email but that doesn't bode well.

Title: Re: Ordering ICs from Chinese manufacturers
Post by: amyk on November 04, 2019, 02:58:24 am

Buying the devices and harvesting the ICs from them might be easier, although lack of a datasheet may get in your way a little.

Title: Re: Ordering ICs from Chinese manufacturers
Post by: thm_w on November 04, 2019, 08:52:52 pm

https://s.taobao.com/search?q=ms9282

Title: Re: Ordering ICs from Chinese manufacturers
Post by: Alex Eisenhut on November 05, 2019, 01:08:33 am

Quote from: thm_w on November 04, 2019, 08:52:52 pm

https://s.taobao.com/search?q=ms9282

 |O d'oh!

OK I'll look there, but that link you gave me takes me to a chinese login page. But point taken.