[En-Nut-Discussion] News on Ethernut 5

[Ovidiu]

Any news?

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Ulrich Prinz <uprinz2 at netscape.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately that is the situation on the market.
>
> We had to change a FLASH on a system as it was announced to be
> discontinued. We changed the chips ones that hat a status of in
> production. While we finished the drivers for uBoot and kernel, these
> new chips where set to 'not recommended for new designs'...
> At the same time, the RAM chips where discontinued too.
>
> While we managed to get a fair ammount of all chips to keep up
> production, a new order of more chips got a delivery announcment for mid
> of the year...         ... mid of year 2011 ...
>
> Thats the actual market situation.
>
> In the beginning of the crisis they stopped all production and closed
> the fabs. Now they see, that there is still a market and it is growing.
> But if you stopped a chip fab you need some time to get it working
> again. Hire people, kalibrate the machines, update the processes...
>
> And all those smaller companies that try to live have bad luck as the
> first millions of chips are already ordered for mobiles, consoles, TV
> sets...
>
> Best regards
> Ulrich
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