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It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased.  I could buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk.  This was a year ago.  Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50 (after shipping)


Anyone else notice this?

I would NOT consider ebay pricing as a good indicator of market pricing.

Jim Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics

On May 24, 2010, at 11:37 AM, englsprogeny1 wrote:

> It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased. I could  
> buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk. This was a year  
> ago. Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50  
> (after shipping)
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> Anyone else notice this?
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Looks like Digi-Key gets $3.55 for one ATMega8. I know I bought a good
quantity of them from Digi-Key several years ago but I forget what they cost
back then.

Zack

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Jim Wagner <wagnerj@proaxis.com> wrote:

> I would NOT consider ebay pricing as a good indicator of market pricing.
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> Jim Wagner
> Oregon Research Electronics
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> On May 24, 2010, at 11:37 AM, englsprogeny1 wrote:
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> > It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased. I could
> > buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk. This was a year
> > ago. Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50
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> > Anyone else notice this?
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Jim Wagner <wagnerj@proaxis.com> wrote:
> I would NOT consider ebay pricing as a good indicator of market pricing.

While that is true, there are many Atmel parts on Allocation forcing prices up.
Atmel won't even give delivery dates for their DataFlash parts at this point.
Mega645 parts and many of the TIny parts are allocated as well.

Seems we are reliving 1983 or so, the last major Allocation Boom/Bust cycle.
Everyone can't get parts now, so they double or triple order from
different suppliers, then when they get the parts,
the factory is stuck with a glut of parts, driving prices down.  Not
that, that helps when you need to deliver products today.

> On May 24, 2010, at 11:37 AM, englsprogeny1 wrote:
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>> It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased. I could
>> buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk. This was a year
>> ago. Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50
>> (after shipping)
>>
>> Anyone else notice this?

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--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "englsprogeny1" <englsprogeny1@...> wrote:
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> It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased.  I could buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk.  This was a year ago.  Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50 (after shipping)
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> Anyone else notice this?
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Definitely. I was about to start a new project using ATMega8 and found out that nobody has them in stock. To make the picture complete, I am in Moscow, Russia.
However ATMega16A are really cheap now, I've bought 20 for $1.7 each.
The seller told me the following: "We all have problems with Atmel. They simply do not ship orders."

I agree that digi-key and others aren't indicators, 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$). More of that we must pre-order atmel production. Our local parts providers warned us about the same situation with other manufacturers, for example nxp.

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@...> wrote:

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> Looks like Digi-Key gets $3.55 for one ATMega8. I know I bought a good
> quantity of them from Digi-Key several years ago but I forget what they cost
> back then.
> 
> Zack
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> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Jim Wagner <wagnerj@...> wrote:
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> > I would NOT consider ebay pricing as a good indicator of market pricing.
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> > Jim Wagner
> > Oregon Research Electronics
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> > On May 24, 2010, at 11:37 AM, englsprogeny1 wrote:
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> > > It seems to me that prices on AVR processors have increased. I could
> > > buy ATMega8 on ebay for $1.50 When I bought in bulk. This was a year
> > > ago. Now it seems you can't find an ATMega8 for less than $4.50
> > > (after shipping)
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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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