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| thm_w:
--- Quote from: wasyoungonce on April 21, 2021, 08:41:14 am ---Continuing Anyone seen any NXP LPC2388FBD144 ICs? I need some just a few (5-10) but bugger me no one appears to have any. Or give lead time of a year or want you to buy a tray. Im just too small time for that If anyone has seen any in the wild? many thanks --- End quote --- Ebay or winsource ($60 ea) |
| floobydust:
NXP certainly screwed up, they should not have bought Freescale without knowing how to manage and meet existing automotive contracts, draw-downs, in place well before the pandemic. They knew full well what IC's were needed. Now everyone cries about the shortage but you have to ask, who is it that allowed the silicon to go elsewhere despite these obligations. ST is aggressively marketing their automotive MCU's, as a replacement for NXP and I hear many engineers have had it with NXP and this fiasco and want to design them out. The crazy lead-times actually allow you to do a new board and firmware. I'll check what the ST deliveries are like, but they are going after increasing market share in all this. |
| wasyoungonce:
Thanks very much gents I've been considering UTSource,,,,I've got mostly good parts from them indeed some very good...I mean how could you fake a LQFP144? Pretty sad when I have to pick thru the rubbish for parts to fix expensive equipment. The question is is i used one and it was bad,,,,,,,urrrggghh they are not easy re-work...its more protecting the PCB pads, Many thanks |
| aargee:
This is the way of things when the world embraces just in time production. The assumption that everyone in the chain of supply/production can do their thing as needed and within a time frame. |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: aargee on April 21, 2021, 11:47:11 pm ---This is the way of things when the world embraces just in time production. The assumption that everyone in the chain of supply/production can do their thing as needed and within a time frame. --- End quote --- Semiconductors are almost the opposite of JIT. Orders are made many months or years in advance with plans for capacity and expansion. The problem is the big automakers use JIT, and that's not compatible with stopping production, cancelling orders and then coming back and expecting the supply to return, when that supply has been re-allocated to customers who will not cancel their orders. |
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