On 28 Oct 2003 at 10:43, Mark Roberts wrote: > I was the Components Engineer responsible for optical sensors (as well > as discrete semiconductors, crystals, filters, oscillators and several > other commodities) at Harris Corp's RF Communications Division at the > time I got the $1000.00 per unit price quote (for a quantity of 1000 > pieces). I went through official Philips channels (this was before Dalsa > bought Philips' CCD products division) and spoke to the Philips rep > myself.
I appreciate your position however I'd bet that deals would be made specifically with camera manufacturers. You know yourself that niche markets (Harris would have been one in the case of CCD not for RF transistors of course) purchases don't generally get as good a deal as volume purchasers who can provide projections for future purchase plans. It was also a couple of years ago. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
