[sdiy] Philips sells most of chip unit. Any SDIY ramifications?

[Ian Fritz]

At 10:17 PM 8/3/2006, scottnoanh at peoplepc.com wrote:
> > > NE5517s went tits-up after the fab burned up last year anyway. ON Semi
> > > has them now.
> >
> > Yeah, but try and buy them.
>
>Yeah, no kidding.  I noticed just yesterday that Mouser has started carrying
>On Semi.  They offer the NE571, NE572 and NE570 (the NE570 is only
>manufactured in surface mount, but the first two are available as DIP), plus
>the 5532's, etc in onesies and twosies.  NE5517?  Sure, they offer it, but
>you have to buy, like, 400 of them.
>
>What's up with that?
>
>Further - how does the NE5517 compare to the surviving few OTA's of the day?
>Has anybody here worked with it?


Hi Scott --

I got some directly from "On" a while back.  They all had excessive offset 
variation with Iabc.  Worse, they were all about the same, so there was no 
hope in selecting out high-performance units.

   Ian