Listen, Ulf: There are less than 500 in distribution channels: 300 in Digikey and 260 in All American. None in Arrow and Avnet. Digikey has more than 2000 last week (unless they lied), so our competitors got more than 1600 of them. Lead time are 8 weeks. We need 1000 ASAP, 2000 in November and 3000 in December, etc. If Atmel is not making them fast enough, we will have no choice but to use the PIGs (sorry PICs).
Attn: Ulf, Atmega169P-16MU
Started by ●September 16, 2007
Reply by ●September 18, 20072007-09-18
"linnix" <me@linnix.info-for.us> skrev i meddelandet news:1189987754.879135.289280@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...> Listen, Ulf: > > There are less than 500 in distribution channels: 300 in Digikey and > 260 in All American. None in Arrow and Avnet. Digikey has more than > 2000 last week (unless they lied), so our competitors got more than > 1600 of them. Lead time are 8 weeks. > > We need 1000 ASAP, 2000 in November and 3000 in December, etc. If > Atmel is not making them fast enough, we will have no choice but to > use the PIGs (sorry PICs).Can't do much about lead times in U.S. distribution. 8 weeks leadtime is not sensationally high though. If you ordered your parts last week, you would have been OK, right? Production time for parts is around 16 weeks, and anyone expecting that stock should be kept is taking a risk. Distis try to optimimize stock so they base their calculations on run rates. If you have a sudden step-up in orders, this disrupts their system and it takes 16 weeks to recover. ------------------------------ With 8 weeks lead time, you will be short by 500, right? You might try to find them in Europe... www.arrownordic.com www.ebv.com -- Best Regards, Ulf Samuelsson This is intended to be my personal opinion which may, or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB
Reply by ●September 18, 20072007-09-18
On Sep 17, 10:39 pm, "Ulf Samuelsson" <u...@a-t-m-e-l.com> wrote:> "linnix" <m...@linnix.info-for.us> skrev i meddelandetnews:1189987754.879135.289280@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com... > > > Listen, Ulf: > > > There are less than 500 in distribution channels: 300 in Digikey and > > 260 in All American. None in Arrow and Avnet. Digikey has more than > > 2000 last week (unless they lied), so our competitors got more than > > 1600 of them. Lead time are 8 weeks. > > > We need 1000 ASAP, 2000 in November and 3000 in December, etc. If > > Atmel is not making them fast enough, we will have no choice but to > > use the PIGs (sorry PICs). > > Can't do much about lead times in U.S. distribution. > 8 weeks leadtime is not sensationally high though. > If you ordered your parts last week, you would have been OK, right? > > Production time for parts is around 16 weeks, and anyone > expecting that stock should be kept is taking a risk. > Distis try to optimimize stock so they base their calculations on run rates. > If you have a sudden step-up in orders, this disrupts their system > and it takes 16 weeks to recover. > > ------------------------------ > > With 8 weeks lead time, you will be short by 500, right?It depends on what the customer wants after 5000, so I can really see pass 3 months. We will need that many AVRs, but not necessary 169s.> You might try to find them in Europe... > > www.arrownordic.comwww.ebv.comOK, thanks.> > -- > Best Regards, > Ulf Samuelsson > This is intended to be my personal opinion which may, > or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB
