Ecnerwal wrote:
In article ,
Joerg wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

298 in-stock at Newark - MAX9691ESA+

Still think Digi-Key is the only distributor in the country? If you
haven't looked at Digi-Key AND Newark AND Mouser, you haven't even begun
to shop.


Sure. However, IME a non-stock situation for all versions of a part at
Digikey is a warning sign. At least for me. OTOH this has also brought
me consulting work (design out) when people ignored such flags. Mostly
they were able to scrape together a few hundred but later it really hit
the fan, or in production speak a line stop situation.

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