[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution T versus Motorola Oncore UT+
EWKehren at aol.com
EWKehren at aol.com
Mon May 13 01:37:36 UTC 2013
More reasons to get it done now. There are those that thought a Tbolt at $
100 was to expensive, same with $ 40 FEI 5680 and unlike commodity products
that traditionally drop in price this is surplus at reduced price or in
the case of the Synergy a one time opportunity that may go away. Try to get
an I-Lotus by it self for that price and with all the Motorola documentation
available what an opportunity.
Bert Kehren
In a message dated 5/12/2013 8:03:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
hmurray at megapathdsl.net writes:
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org 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.
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