At 2003-02-01 16:03 -0800, Syd Levine \(AnaLog\) wrote: >A couple of years back, I used to look for chips using PartMiner, but I >think they went to paid subscription. In any event, I cannot get their >webpage up.
Partminer is the chip broker part of their business and Freetradezone is their datasheet service (CapXpert bought or licensed from IHS). You have to take a paid-for subscription to have access to datasheets of obsolete chips. Their brokerage services are paid for out of their profit of course. http://www.freetradezone.com/ http://www.partminer.com/ - this links to the other site In order to use their datasheet database you have to register. Partminer/Freetradezone has sponsored my Chipdir very generously for several years. In fact, I think my site inspired them to start something similar as the Chipdir. I had breakfast with the CEO/owner of Partminer in autumn 1998 in Amsterdam to discuss their advertising deal and he was very pleased with all the new potential customers he was getting through the Chipdir. That was when Partminer was still quite small. >I tried the scarce chip search thing at ChipDir, but it returns an error >saying my browser is not showing a proper referral page. I have just sent you a private message about this, but it's not a secret: We hire that service from ICsource and they require that all requests are send from a form on one of my sites. At the moment that is set to be xs4all.nl. They want to make sure that non-payers don't use the service. Your problem is probably that you're behind a firewall that filters out the referral page. >Where can I look for scarce chips these days? >The kind of thing that pops up different sellers >and even prices? If you have money to spare you can take a paid-for subscription from NetCOMPONENTS (another advertiser in the Chipdir). They also allow OEM's as members, but it's quite expensive when you're a small OEM. (It's about $45 per month, if I remember correctly.) Another problem is that real brokers tend to boycot services like these that cater directly to OEM's, so they don't submit their stock to them. Via Netcomponents you are therefore more likely to find distributor (so non-obsolete) stock than via a real broker. As regards pricing: Most stocks aren't priced. It's a question of negociations between your broker and the broker of the OEM with the left-over stock. If you can't solve your referral page problem you can also send your requests directly to my partners at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have worked with them many years already and have never had a complaint about them yet. Please also consider that they shield you from trouble with other brokers. Be careful when doing direct business with Asian brokers for example. Good brokers are usually a member of the ERAI (Electronic Resellers Association International) which keeps track of brokers that haven't fulfilled their obligations. On ICsource brokers can also comment on each other. Thrifty Components who also responded to your emails, is also an ERAI member, see: http://www.thriftycomp.com/ (left bottom corner) Greetings, Jaap -- Chip Directory -- http://www.chipdir.biz/ -- http://www.chipdir.info/ -- http://www.chipdir.net/ -- http://www.chipdir.nl/ -- http://www.chipdir.org/ -- And about 30 other mirror sites world-wide. -- -- To subscribe to a free 'chip issues, questions and answers' -- mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with -- in the body 'subscribe chipdir-L'. About 500 experts are -- willing to think with you about electronics problems etc. -- Author: Jaap van Ganswijk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
