[sdiy] ALFA clone chips?

[Roman Sowa]

If you're not aware, list price for shipping across the border in EU is 
about $100 with all major couriers. But it is very common to get huge 
discounts if you ship frequently. ALFA probably does not ship many 
packages, only dealing with few resellers and freaks like me.
And there's the price of packing stuff - someone has to do it. The SMD 
parts I got from them were custom packed for me - the quantity I ordered 
was placed in continuous tape with starter and ender included, so it was 
not just snipped out of the regular reel.

I can only guess but considering the discount I have with couriers (and 
I'm just small puppy), it would not surprise me if for example Farnell 
or Mouser had 97% discount on shipping.

Roman

W dniu 2021-03-28 o 23:48, cheater cheater pisze:
> Was that $40 from Latvia to Poland? Isn't this just around the corner?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 10:18 PM Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>>
>> Last time I bought ALFA chips, it was in quantities just above 10, and I
>> think it was possible then to even buy 1.
>> ALFA sells directly, just email them.
>> Shipping may be expensive though, like $40 or so.
>>
>> Funny the subject poped up just now, as I finally soldered my Alfa chips
>> test-module 2 days ago. Picture attached.
>>
>> Roman
>>
>> W dniu 2021-03-28 o 08:45, Ben Bradley pisze:
>>> Are these still only available from the "boutique" distributors? I'll
>>> buy from them but I'd prefer to buy from Digikey, Mouser or Arrow or
>>> other large mainstream distributor if I can. Will they ever pick up
>>> these lines, or is the total expected sales quantity just too small,
>>> or what? Digikey and Mouser carry lots of Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff,
>>> I've ordered the breakout boards for several hard-to-hand-solder
>>> chips, they're a great convenience. If the big distributors can carry
>>> those, I would think they could carry the synth chips.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 7:44 PM Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I thought what these companies did (CoolAudio aka Uli Behringer, ALFA, SSI) was take photos of the old chips and re-issue them based off that?
>>>>
>>>> Sort of.  There's a company in Singapore who will strip off each layer of an IC and generate new masks but also an accurate schematic of the IC so you can make an exact clone or an improved version should you so wish.  But they can only give you an estimate of deposition times and so you need to run a full trial and errors runs to get that right.
>>>>
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