That means, they are almost handtest ,-) ?
Peter

Erik Reikes schrieb:

> At 07:02 AM 10/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Digikey is claiming to be getting more in December. I'd like
> >to know what the hold up is on these Flash parts. It's
> >been over a year since MicroChip started telling us about these
> >parts!
> >
>
> The story I heard was that there is only one testing station capable of
> testing the chips as they come off the line.  There is another one being
> manufactured, but apparently these testing stations are very big ticket
> limited production type devices and it takes a few months to have one
> built.  All of the production coming out of the other tester is reserved
> for the big dogs with high volume current production projects with these
> micros.  I bought 25 of the 876's from digi-key when they had them and I am
> using them all for first articles and pre-production samples.  I can only
> hope that by mid-january they will be available in volume.  I may get bit,
> I may not....
>
> -Erik Reikes