> Almost ALL heavy production is done in Taiwan, Korea or China if its 4-6layers. US manufacturers have too heavy of a tax burden (paying for soldiers in Iraq, Afghanuistan, Bosnia, etc) to be economically viable. Not to mention the fact that workers in China commonly work for US$83 a month and factories can obtain capital essentially interest free. Taxes are the least of it. Alas, however, that is where most stuff is made nowadays. -- Lawrence Lile Chris Loiacono Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 07/24/2003 02:24 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [EE]: PCBs for production At Q = 10k, you should get fair pricing wherever you go. Almost any fab house or CM would be interested.... Generally, production houses are oriented to doing production PCBs only, and proto houses can't compete in production. Almost ALL heavy production is done in Taiwan, Korea or China if its 4-6layers. US manufacturers have too heavy of a tax burden (paying for soldiers in Iraq, Afghanuistan, Bosnia, etc) to be economically viable. At 08:31 PM 7/24/2003 +0300, you wrote: >I have searched and looked at the piclist and got a lot of information about >companies for doing prototype pcbs and assembly. Should we still stick to >them for production PCBs and assembly? When I mean production, the >quantities start from 1000 and up to 10000 units. Or is this still >considered prototype? -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body