Another aspect to this is the increased cost of prototyping. How many of you can stick down BGA parts in your basement? Andy Jinx on 09/26/2000 07:00:11 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: [OT]: NZ polies > >What is it you think the rich and powerful are trickling down on you > >Mr Michaels ? > > > Comment not appropriate to piclist - Mr. Jinxaroonie. > And they're doing it from greater and greater heights. This is all relevant to the game we're in of course. As (eg IC) companies get bigger and bigger by sales growth and/or acquisition of smaller companies, their profit margins get smaller as they fight competition or devote large portions of their output to similarly large product manufacturers, for example cellphones. The result is that at the lower end of the food chain (quite a lot of us, relatively speaking) parts become either unavailable in economically practical terms or just plain unavailable. The irony is thus that wherever you look there are more and more great new devices being made and "for sale" but they are so often unobtainable. We just aren't worth the paper-work time anymore -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST