Design it for both and sell the more expensive one to the RoHS market. 
It was their choice anyway.
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Martin K

Zik Saleeba wrote:
> 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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