Cyclone III Availability

This is mainly a user forum, so people commenting (like me) that don't work for Intel have no inside information.

If an Intel employee responds, they are going to say: "... please contact your nearest local Intel sales office for more information."

In most cases I don't think any distributors really have a good idea (nor do Intel sales offices) when the pipelines of parts will flow again.

Right now, semiconductors of all types are supply constrained, and are going to large customers with existing supply contracts.

Some of them are not even getting all the parts they want.

Distributors are last on the list, and mostly get parts not pre-committed to large customer orders.

IMHO it is going to take a year or more for things to get back to even close to normal, when distributors had stock they could ship.

If you only need a few pieces, you might try the secondary markets (like eBay, etc). But be careful -- you can get sold counterfeit devices. Due to pricing and availability, the incentive to remark devices as something they are not, and sell them as 'real', is very high. So buying devices from an unknown seller in China, for example, without a guarantee of a return if they do not work, is problematic at best.

Good luck. Glad I'm retired now and do not have to deal with this sh**show for real.

I called Intel sales, marketing and support offices and they told me to post the question here. I was hoping someone from Intel would monitor and answer. Intel not giving ANY estimate for is not a good look and it makes it hard to design Intel into a circuit. I HATE what Intel has done to the low-cost FPGA market.

Thank you! Finally, some answer. I don't understand why it needed to be a secret.