Today I got this in Altera's email newsletter
Get RoHS Compliant with Altera FPGAs, CPLDs and Structured ASICs
I have never seen a single 3000 series PLD available in leadfree that you could actually purchase for delivery from stock. I have been able to buy lead versions of most of this family without too much trouble.
I managed to buy a small number of leadfree Max II parts that are on allocation.
I think the current delivery is something like 14 weeks (about when we are all supposed to be RoHS compliant).
I guess I found this ad a bit ironic since we have all known that RoHS was coming for a long time and Altera is bragging in their ads that they have been shipping RoHS compliant devices for a long time. I guess this must not include their distributors......
I hate the RoHS requirements, but like nearly everyone else, we are working to comply. It doesn't help when the manufacturers are at least a year late in the transition process.
Thanks for listening to my rant.....