After a bit of a hiatus due to being incredibly busy, your favorite components blog is back. We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving breaks, and are now back to business as usual. Things have still been moving steady here with relation to the Texas Instruments allocation times. We are still able to save people loads [...]
Author: Juan | Date: December 8, 2009 - 04:53 PM | Comments: none
As I have mentioned before TI parts have been quite a commidity as of late. Of these the MSP430 series seem to be fetching a pretty penny right now, so I figured I would give you a lil bit more information. According to Texas Instruments’ website:
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The MSP430 microprocessor platform of ultra-low-power 16-bit RISC mixed-signal processors [...]
Author: Juan | Date: November 6, 2009 - 03:12 PM | Comments: none
Recently it seems we have been doing a good bit of works with LEDs, and it seems that surface mount LEDs are becoming more popular (as opposed to the round dip LEDs which were common place.) So regarding that I am pulling in an article from EPN-ONLINE.COM regarding LEDs.
” PLCC LEDs provide increased shelf life [...]
Author: Juan | Date: November 2, 2009 - 04:36 PM | Comments: none
As you have heard me babble about recently, TI parts have become HOT. Prices are startin to rocket, allocation times are increasing, and everyday parts are now becoming rare.
Here is a brief excerpt from Reuters reporting the following on TI:
“* Texas Instruments posted better-than-expected third-quarter results on Monday, citing strong demand from every industry that [...]
Author: Juan | Date: October 23, 2009 - 03:28 PM | Comments: none
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Author: Juan | Date: October 23, 2009 - 03:23 PM | Comments: none
As we mentioned before it seems that TI has been running into long allocation times recently. Parts that were fractions of a cent before are steadily going up. It would only make sense that parts that accompany them would go up as well. On that note, we are starting to notice things as simple as [...]
Author: Juan | Date: October 23, 2009 - 03:20 PM | Comments: none
Good afternoon everyone!
Another crazy busy week progressing here around 7springs. In our workings with different tech sectors we are starting to notice a common theme recently, a rise in the demand for TI (Texas Instruments) parts. Maybe its because the economy is finally turning back around, but a lot of these TI parts that were [...]
Author: Juan | Date: October 20, 2009 - 04:01 PM | Comments: none
Once again we have some new faces joining the crew over here at 7Springs. our new addition is Janelle. Originally from VA she has a back ground in administrative assisting, and has actually worked for some large telecomm companies, which as you know, are some of our best friends ;o)
Here’s Janelle!
Janelle@7Springselectronics.com
So if you hear from [...]
Author: Juan | Date: October 19, 2009 - 03:16 PM | Comments: none
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Author: Juan | Date: October 9, 2009 - 03:33 PM | Comments: none
It has been quite a week here around 7Springs. Our ventures into new sectors, and the customers we have aquired along the way have certainly kept us busy. It seems that at this time the Texas Instruments MSP series are going like hot cakes…to the point there may be a global shortage soon. So if [...]
Author: Juan | Date: October 9, 2009 - 03:28 PM | Comments: none