On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:15:28 -0400, you wrote:

>Mark Walsh wrote:
>>REC Electronics in Auckland (www.rec.com.au) get me SMT parts
>>from Australia. DIP is very hard to get, everything is committed and
>>they can't ship it in from Atmel quick enough. I'd have preferred DIP
>>myself but as you say, very long lead times. What I'll probably do
>>for my mucking about is put the SMT parts on socket-mounted PCBs.
>>PITA but a micro's a micro
>>
>>> What is your source for 2313's?  Are these SOIC packages?
>>
>>> I've started thinking that Atmel is a clone of Motorola when it
>>> comes to parts availability, but maybe the problem is with my
>>> distributor (All American).
>>
>
>
>JFTHOI, I went to the Digikey site and checked on AVR
>availability of 2313 and others. No stock, no backorder date.
>The database/catalog, however, are all set to go o nthe day
>the stork finally arrives.
>
>After listening to all the AVR buzz/no_availability_misery on
>piclist for a year, jumping into AVR sounds like pure
>______________ <---[fill in your own word].
>
>As I recall, Mot had this kind of problem in the early 90s when
>Ford or somebody started putting the 6805s in autos by the
>millions. Anyone know where millions of AVRs might be going to?
>Telecomm, maybe?
It's not AVRs - Atmel's fabs are busy with flash and eeproms for
markets like mobile phones. A rather short-sighted move as no-one with
any sense will be designing -in AVRs at the moment, so when the flash
bubble bursts demand for AVRs will have evaporated. Expect huge price
drops when  they do become available agin.=20

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