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hans:
I just remembered 1 part manufacturer..

Broadcom

You won't get their top spec parts without signing a NDA first.

But IMO it gets worse. Turns out they EOL'ed some very niche neat parts that originated from Agilent semiconductors. In particular I'm talking about zero bias schottky diodes, which were very commonly used in RF energy harvesting and detectors, as they had excellent biasing characteristics but above all the datasheets showed what kind of about amplitude you can expect given a certain signal power input. This is what I find particularly lacking in other RF schottky diodes that are advertised for detector applications.

MD Kowshik:

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POOR: Texas Instruments. It kills me to give them a negative rating, because I've had great success with their parts in the past. But like that other thread pointed out, of late their components have seemed needlessly complex and, let's be honest, sometimes even difficult to use. And while their spec sheets and app notes used to be second to none - they sought not just to tell you about their parts but also to educate you on the technology and mindset behind them - lately they've deteriorated significantly. It's just not safe anymore to presume that a TI part will be bulletproof, and that's a shame.



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I personally hate the cheapo Chinese capacitor brand ChongX ...man their capacitors are flooding the markets and spreading like cancer.
There just bad they blow up at 60% of their rated voltage and Bulges at 70~80C temperature...
And Yes Ti is slowly but surely starting to move away from usability by the general public to complicated and difficult to operate and often requiring many additional components than other chips which do the same thing but with way little components and way easily.

SiliconWizard:
Regarding TI, of course they have bought off many companies over the years, so it would also depend on what components you're talking about. Always had good success with former Burr-Brown devices for instance, and their direct TI successors. TI is not quite a "monolithic" company.

I've already had troubles with some TI LDOs though, some of which happened to have pretty poor line and load regulation, certainly worse than what was "advertised" in the datasheets.

Some of the GOOD: Analog Devices and LT, Microchip, SiLabs, Nordic, ST, On Semi. Absolutely not exhaustive of course.
GOOD SURPRISES: for power supply ICs: Torex, MPS.
The UNEVEN: ALPS. Can be very good or shitty. Hard to know beforehand unless you already know the product.

coppercone2:
The horrific: unitrode

Why? They are called unitrode.

My biggest fustration is with atmel 8bit mcu.


I really cant complain aboutelectronics parts. So long they dont need code its groovy. If it fries you replace it. At least a capacitor error wakes you up... unlike the compiler which will put you into your eternal dirt nap with its errors

I find the deficencies and manufacturing tradeoffs very interesting.

I have yet to feel the urge to tune up a breadboard unlike a fucking pc. With my fists

Gibson486:
I think they all have their fair share of good and bad. My fav was always Linear Tech because they had fabulous sales support. That has changed with AD buying them. Now everything is done through their online forums which is a mess, but I guess it was only appropriate that an expensive IC company bought another expensive IC company. TI, on the other hand, has a great forum and the people who respond do a good job.

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