All the chip vendors sell parts in China in quantity for about 30% to 50% less than quantity pricing in the US. When asking distributors in China how this is possible they say "we Chinese expect this pricing, otherwise we wouldn't use these parts" This is why it's so hard to compete with products from China... That's also why new DVD players (with red laser diodes etc etc inside) can be sold for $29 retail profitably. bye, Said In a message dated 2/29/2012 13:45:10 Pacific Standard Time, d...@montana.com writes:
Dunno if you have seen this on ebay: 260967834514 It's an AD9850 with a 125 MHz crystal mounted up on a .1 spacing board with pins, for about $8 free shipping from the Old Country. I bought 4 of 'em for the in case box (in case I need one). I have some OCXO's in the 100 MHz neighborhood that will do just fine and the hard work is done... BTW, that price is about $4 less than AD's price per chip on a 5k reel. Dunno how they do it... Best, Don _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
