Jinx wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > - danM
>
> More than once I've been told that much production is commited
> to cell-phone and micro-PC manufacturer. Not just micros, but
> regulators and memory. When you see the features that cell-phones
> are getting it's no wonder they need stuffing with all "our" chips
>

A few months ago, I was in the middle of all that, in particular for the
atmel AVR AT90S8515.  We were being quoted 6 month delivery times on
10K+ orders.  You vould get ones and 10s without much problem, though.

The word from our Atmel rep was that Atmel was pushing the vast majority
of their resources to produce flash memories, which had some very
important (huge volume) customers.  Microcontrollers we just not as
important a market to them, so not as much foundry time was devoted to
them, which led to the long wait.  Being one of the "smaller" customers
with 10K - 50K volumes (for our initial builds), we had to wait.

Matt

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