Our lead times are going up, too. It helps (to an extent) to have scheduled=
 shipments. A few times, we resorted to buying third party stock and milita=
ry spec chips.

My guess is that the shortage is the result of rising demand. As soon as yo=
ur fabs are working round-the-clock, there's not much you can do, to increa=
se capacity. We can only hope that Mr. Sanghi can find other companies' big=
 mistakes, soon.

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On May 4, 2014, at 17:15, <foros@arocholl.com> wrote:

> I am getting longer and longer lead times notices from Microchip - for mo=
st
> dsPIC and PIC24 we use, I am getting 150days! So about 6 months is
> apparently being the norm. Did anybody heard about any production or
> reliability issues that may explain this? Is this expected to get worse? =
Or
> better?
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> I am aware of the letters delivered last year saying lead times may
> increase, but 6 months looks completely out of bonds to me - there are
> certain projects that would barely survive with these lead times, I do no=
t
> expect our customers to be happy with this perspective. We may need to
> switch to something else.
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> Any insight appreciated.
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> Ariel Rocholl
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