[email protected] said: > Regardless, one has to be a bit careful in expected lifetime.
Most silicon vendors have an end-of-life (EOL) policy. The general idea, at least for the ones I'm familiar with, is that they will announce the end of life of a product and take orders until some date and promise to fill all those orders. Distributors often send the end-of-life notices on to customers who have ordered those parts. That can be wonderful or spam depending on your mood/circumstances. Things get more complicated if you are a board-level vendor and a chip you use goes EOL. If you are shipping X parts per year and you depend on a chip that goes EOL and costs $Y, you can figure out how many you should order to cover the next N years. That assumes that your order predictions are correct and also that the chips you receive work as expected. Things get ugly if the chips you ordered and stockpiled don't work as expected. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
