Hi, Most of the time, my experience is that the estimaetd shipping date doesn't really hold true. However, parts so far have gotten to me in three weeks around there. However so far i have not been getting really exotic parts, mainly 18F452s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Chia "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison E-mail: danielcjh@yahoo.com.sg MSN: danstryder01@yahoo.com.sg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spehro Pefhany" To: Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [PIC:] MicroChip sample service > At 11:27 AM 7/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ryan Underwood" > >Subject: Re: MicroChip sample service > > > > > I have a feeling it is either that they are swamped with > > > requests, or that it simply takes a while for the chips to > > > get anywhere from Thailand. > > > >Analog Devices ships their samples from Taiwan and they arrive practically > >overnight. Of course, perhaps not everyone would want to spend as much in > >shipping as AD. > > I've thrown out the packing slips from recent sample orders, but I think > the delay is Microchip's fault- once shipped they should only take a couple of > business days (which can stretch into 4 days around holiday weekends). > > Best regards, > > Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" > speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com > Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.