AVR-Chat

AVR's can be purchased (if you can find the specific one you are looking for). Unfortunately, the price has significantly jumped.  I remember buying a lot of ATMEGA8s about two years ago on Ebay where the effective cost (after shipping and handling) was $1.50 per processor!!!!  

Now it will cost (effectively (after shipping) )between $5 and $10 per ATMEGA8.  This is absurd.  Newark, Mouser, Allied all have the same price!  It used to be that $10 would get you at ATMEGA128.  They've even gone up in price!  

What if you are in production and need to have your ATMEGA8 available and for a reasonable price?


I love AVR but am feeling frustrated.





--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Hodge" <steve@...> wrote:
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> >. ditto for the ATmega328.
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> But it looks like only in DIP package.  I'm still looking for it in -AU
> package.  My searching over the past few days seems to indicate that DIP
> packages of various uC's are more readily available than SMT, presumably
> because they are less in demand.
> 
> Steve
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> Don Kinzer
> ZBasic Microcontrollers
> http://www.zbasic.net
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