FPGA Inventories/Leadtime

Yes it is definitely killing small business and I am thinking of going to premature retirement.

I have been used to Altera’s way of designing using LPM primitives, its mega plugin wizard, the AHDL or Schematic based design entry, Qsys/Platform Designer etc. that moving away is like driving a bull cart after getting used to cars. Altera is unique and unmatched in that sense.

I used to say, all those guys who boost of using vendor neutral Verilog code should have a look at the cosy life of vendor specific guys.

But today they have the last laugh. They can easily move away to say Efinix, but I cant.

imminent closure of business looms large. I have tried knocking the doors of so many suppliers. Cant get supplies to even tide of a month. The fact that there a privileged tier 1 companies and that these companies alone can survive this onslaught is disturbing.

Will I ever get a sympathetic reply form some one in Intel on this IC crisis.