AVR-Chat

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:04:36AM -0000, Eugene wrote:
> I agree that digi-key and others aren't indicators,

I don't agree with your statement that Digi-Key is not an "indicator." I
know it P.O.'ed my Atmel rep and local distributor that I looked at DK
prices, they said as much. Told them they could be upset if they wanted
to but with DK I knew I was looking at prices that I could have parts in
hand in 2 days. That I could have a quote in hand in 10 minutes. If the
distributor could not beat that then it wasn't my problem. We did get a
nice discount under the DK prices.

Prices for Microchip MCUs were essentially the same at DK as through
distributorship, making the PIC very expensive with respect to the AVR.

> but we have the same situation and we do not use DK etc. Even if we
> order a serious quantity in a local market we can't get the prices we
> had 1 year ago (we had atmega16 for ~1,4$).

We were buying about 10,000 per year at the time through the distributor.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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