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Kwag
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4 years ago

FPGA Inventories/Leadtime

Does anyone have any insight to what is going on with FPGA inventories. Do you have to be a select Intel partner to get parts? Standard distribution (Digikey) has nothing. When we ask leadtime the an...
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raviganesh
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4 years ago

Thankyou CICCIO for exposing this.

I too placed an order with Mouser and this is the last reply I got from Mouser:

Dear sir,

We will check with the supplier and come back to you soon on this

Best Regards,

Mala.R

Customer Service Representative

Mouser Electronics India Pvt Ltd .- https://www.mouser.in/manufacturer/

(080) 42650000 Extn:4258

www.mouser.com

I feel very sad and sorry for Altera.

Your thoughts on how you are moving forward would be supportive.

Ravi Ganesh

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    ak6dn
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    4 years ago

    Distributors can't sell parts they don't have in stock or can't get from the manufacturer.

    Don't blame Mouser et al because they can't get parts for you.

    High volume customers are buying up all the parts they can direct from Intel.

    And it is not different sourcing parts from AMD/Xilinx.

    High volume customers are buying up all the parts they can direct from Xilinx.

    It is a semiconductor industry capacity problem.

    Lots of these parts are all built at the same TSMC fabs, which is wafer thruput constrained.

    Welcome to 2022. They say it will be be better by 2024.