On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:52:44 -0700, you wrote:

>On Jun 24, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Mike Harrison wrote:
>
>> and they actually show stock, that's novel for Atmel.... I'd still be
>> nervous designing it in with their past history.
>
>Atmel availability has looked pretty reasonable for the last 5 years or
>so - IIRC, they opened a new fab in 1999 or 2000 that improved things a
>lot, and later they bought/merged with Temic and might have acquired
>some more production capability.  (Just before the bubble burst.  a bit
>sad.)   The seminar included a list of their current facilities; it
>lists 6 fabs in 5 countries. including one apparently dedicated to
>CCDs.)
>I might still think twice for very high volumes, though.  interesting
>the way a reputation lingers ....
>Digikey has claimed continuous stock of most of the major parts (every
>time I've looked, anyway), and they've show up at a bunch of other
>dealers, and on eBay  (I gather that the 2313 is used in some sort of
>cable decoder thing. Lots of people selling 2313s on eBay.  Sigh.)

Main reason for my comment is that a customer of mine was quoted 16-20 =
weeks on ATMegas a couple of
months ago, and they but a lot of Atmels. Don't know if the situation has=
 improved at all since
then.

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic:
[PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads