A SOT-89 with emitter in the middle

It costs money just to have a part in the lineup. If it's not making money, it goes.

When the product mix moves to a higher productivity fab, older fabs become unprofitable. Widgets that can't be moved, or are marginally profitable to begin with, get orphaned. This isn't anything new.

We got most of them!

That die can't be very big. They could fab a box full of wafers, stash them somwhere, raise the price, and make everybody happy.

EOL policies certainly steer our choice of vendors.

Or you can do what you've done, buy enough to keep you in business for the next decade or two. You want them to take a risk they have no interest in taking.

That's certainly the smart way to run a business but it's not like they're discontinuing a part with no warning.

I think they should care about customer relations rather than quarterly profit.

It *does* matter if engineers specify their parts. But the effect of our design-in decisions takes more than one quarter to show up.

Sure customer relations matter but only to the extent it generates profit. That's why they're in business.

The effects of our design-ins don't show up for two or three years. It's not unusual for a rep to no longer have a line when the parts finally go to production. The pay-off can be rather large, though.

Of course it is! The 'warning' is one message in a mailbox, among thousands. Neglecting the customers' needs but giving a warning is almost exactly the same as neglecting the customer's needs.

Wnen you need a transistor, you do NOT want a warning instead.

Wasn't there an electronic distributor that noticed the profit margin on resistors was just very small, so they dropped 'em from the catalog? Can't remember the name, they're out of business now.

Exactly what do you want them to do? Fly an airplane towing banners over his business? Put multi-page ads in the NYT? Send a dossier to the FBI?

So you're saying that once a manufacturer makes something, that obligates them to make that widget forever? You're nuts!

Perfect material for an urban legend. "Did you hear the one about..."

NXP is not obligated to keep making BFQ149's, and I am not obligated to use any more NXP parts.

No more than I have to either. Some are already designed in though.

boB

No, but pretty soon you're going to run out of suppliers. NXP is better than most.

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Maybe. We'll see but my point stands.

Am 22.12.2017 um 17:56 schrieb John Larkin:

But it seems that the BF862 lives on. No more from NXP, but from Nexperia now.

cheers, Gerhard

No such luck.

Fortunately there's the CPH3910, which is a near drop-in replacement.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Am 09.01.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Phil Hobbs:

They claim to have 1940 pcs. of Nexperia BF862 , a minute ago?

A search for "BF862" at nexperia.com comes up with nada.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs