I'm currently designing what I hope will be my first commercial
product. This device incorporates a MEMS gyro. It's also price
sensitive and the parts cost is dominated by the gyro so anything I
can do to keep the gyro price down makes a big difference to the final
cost.

One gyro I've been looking at is Analog Devices' ADXRS300. It's small
and neat but costs more than I'd like (US$30 in quantity). It also
turns out to be RoHS non-compliant, and they have no intention of ever
making it compliant. I don't want to cut myself off from RoHS markets
but am unsure of how serious this really is. Does anyone have any
experiences they'd like to relate about choosing whether or not to go
with RoHS compliance?

I could move to Analog Devices ADIS series which are RoHS compliant
but they're also significantly more expensive. Expensive enough to make
them a very painful choice for my product.

Can anyone recommend any more favorably priced gyros? If I can't be
RoHS compliant I'd prefer to at least be cheap. Or better still does
anyone know of a reasonably-priced RoHS compliant gyro?

Thanks in advance,
Zik
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