[time-nuts] AD9850 boards

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The basic issue is that below a certain dollar volume you go from being a
factory direct account to being a distributor account. There is a little
wiggle room in most contracts about the point that happens, but not a whole
lot. Most of us simply do not do the millions of dollars / year volumes (per
supplier) that get you into the factory direct category. 

Yes indeed this does apply directly to the AD9850. At one point we more or
less tripped over the magic boundary with the AD9854 and set off some alarm
bells at Analog Devices. The project died soon after that ...

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:01 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] AD9850 boards

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, SAIDJACK at 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,
> djl at 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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