If Maxim is hell, why doesn't someone step up and buy quantity to  
help out little
developers ?  Gus

On 2006-Aug 07, at 05:05hrs AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

Anon wrote:
> I don't know why Maxim makes it so difficult for small companies to
> design with their components.

Because they don't care.

> I am developing a new consumer electronics product. Unfortunately,
> I planned to use 4 Maxim chips that are hard to find in small
> quantities (1-40).

With the regular mention of Maxim small order problems here and  
elsewhere,
it's totally amazing to me that anyone would still do this.  This is  
just
plain bad design.


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