Sourcing parts in China is very different from the US or Europe. When I buy
parts in the US I will first go to the distributor and get their price, then I
will go to the manufacturer and get promised a better price, still through the
distributor. The distributor still gets a cut, even if the parts come direct
from the factory. In China, the distributor can be completely cut out (or take
a much smaller cut) and the pricing blows away anything I can get here. Same
parts, same factory, certified parts, and sometimes even shipped right from the
factory. So in a way China is killing us on manufacturing because US
manufacturers are giving the Chinese companies a strong price advantage.
On 2/29/2012 6:52 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote:
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
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