Analog buys Linear

AD parts will now grow to LT levels.

I buy a lot of "boutique" parts. most a lot more than LT IC's... At some point if it works the price is not important. (when a part goes away it sucks, for me.)

George H.

I don't see that happening. There are alternatives and I don't see ADI offering the hand-holding for small customers that LT is famous for. Perhaps there will be some of each, with steep volume pricing? It's all guesses at this point.

Exactly. Small users are more concerned about support than cost. Large volume customers are the opposite, though they still get service.

That part doesn't change. That's why we have contracts for such things. Sometimes a program lives longer than first expected so it has happened.

Multisim.

He posted "modules" not model.

Obviously his comment was designed to bait you. It worked.

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:35:11 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz wrote: Support as never approached the skill level exhibited by LT.

oh... now I know why TI doesn`t have any useable linear support in Austria....

- Michael Wieser

OK I don't know AD's product line that well. I guess I'm already paying a big price for their analog multipliers and modulator (AD630)

I guess I'm mostly thinking about other companies that have been bought out and I've then see the prices rise. In the distant past we bought photodiodes from Photonic Detectors (or some such name... they still list on digikey) After the price doubled I went looking for a new vendor. (OSI optoelectronics)

George H.

It's all about ROI. We do a lot of business with TI and have probably increased the business at least 5x in the last three or four years, with contracts out five years or more.

I think ADI's and LT's lineup is pretty complementary. ADI picks up power from LT, which *has* to have monstrous margins.

You can only do that when there is nowhere else to go.

We like ADI's DSPs but aren't married to them and go elsewhere in a heartbeat if they increased prices significantly.

I did not mention "modules" re-read my post please

... pfff ! Please do not twist my words to your advantage. I never ever at any time of my life been the author of such a ridiculous attitude. You're warned.

Habib.

Or else what? Inquiring minds want to know. ;)

Usenet is like that, Habib. Having a thin skin just makes you fun to tease , so it's best to go for a walk and cool off if necessary before replying. (I'm not in favour of that tendency of Usenet, for the record. Just the m essenger.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Oh ... nothing, I was just disappointed and angry on that comment ... just an epidermic reaction of me of course.

Indeed I have the skin thin and my apologies to sci.electronics.design but i confess I'm proud of this.

I consider myself old enough to assume my own mistakes and almost also to correct publicly any of my comments (and in the secret of my heart too).

Habib.

Better to go to walk ! Thanks Phil !

Habib.

ease, so it's best to go for a walk and cool off if necessary before replyi ng. (I'm not in favour of that tendency of Usenet, for the record. Just t he messenger.)

).

What!? Admit publicly on SED that you made a mistake? You haven't read our code of conduct. On SED we never admit mistakes! :^)

:-)

Oh ! making mistakes and admitting them is my first lesson to learn something "new" every day.

Assume Scientific knowledge is like a perfect gas, it leads to go to a maximum entropy within the availaible space. We can give to SED, from time to time, a high density singularity ; a schematics, a calculation, a comment on a paper, an idea ... or making mistakes and admitting it.

Habib.

Ok then but i did not make the confusion between spice models and NI modules.

Habib.

Okay, here is what you wrote...

"ADi --> Physicists are using electronics (NI modules), from time to time."

You seem to have mentioned "modules", Mr. Terrorist.

I'm return a long walk today in Vercors here in French Alps.

I'm a gentle man, many of my friends call me bib or hab .. as they like.

You've been warned.

Habib.

Sounds nice, caves and things.