YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS
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I need to purchase 1K to 2K 8xC51Rx2 micros (Temic or Philips) but USA distributors are quoting, "No stock, 30+ weeks lead time".

Is this chip more available in Europe? I'll open an office in Europe if that's what it takes. :-)

Maybe its time to check Motorola leadtimes. It should take only 6 weeks to design and layout a replacement microcontroller card.

NO TEMICS... NO COMMISSIONS
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At least I have a carrot to dangle in front of the mule that is my components distributor. I have a $70K order that they're checking on... I think I'll tell them that I'm going to scale the order volume down, based upon how many Temics they can supply me with. :-)

With my salesrep's commission on that amount... maybe some micros will mysteriously show up?

LOW POWER MICROPROCESSORS
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While checking on the MPS430C by Texas Instruments for another forum topic, I found the TMS370 I used at Tandy 10 years ago. I used it in a cordless telephone handset due to its low-power performance (Tandy has a Patent in my name on that project). I'll have to see if I can replace my 8051 radio link card with it???

-Jay C. Box