We're having a difficult time finding TANT caps of A and B(B2?) sizes.
Most of the top tier distributors are not even giving out lead times, but
from some, I have gotten some as long as 52weeks. And unfortunately, if I
am lucky enough to find them, I'm paying at least 4 times as much as I was
last year.
tom
At 08:43 PM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote:
>Hi Nancy!
>
>Thank-you for the clarification about the case sizes, after all, being from
>Kemet, you are the expert.
>
>I gotta question that was brought up on the technet a few weeks ago, it's
>about the upcoming shortages of tantalum capacitors world-wide. This is
>apparently a fact as far as I can see. Talking to the purchasing folks at my
>company, they have verified that lead times are becoming longer and longer,
>and that in some cases, if you've not been a long term customer with certain
>companies, they will not accept any new orders.
>
>I guess my question is; are things really that bad? Do we (as EMS providers)
>need to adjust the leadtimes to our turn-key customers because of this
>situation? How far out do we need to plan on to purchase tantalum capacitors?
>
>I know there's a lot of press out there about this, but I'd like to know your
>opinion about the situation, and if it is true, why the situation occured. If
>you can't talk about it, I'll understand...
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
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