[sdiy] ODP: Buying directly from Texas Instruments

[David Riley]

On Oct 5, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
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> Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> skrev:
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> Microchip, Analog Devices, Maxim, who needs anything else :)
> The passives are different thing unfortunately
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> Speaking of these things... a bit off-topic perhaps, but:
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> TI is interesting, since they make so many useful IC types at such a decent price.
> You could practically make a whole modern synth with only TI parts and passives. (I'm sure their ICs could be used as passives if mistreated well enough) :-)

Well, yes, considering that they've bought just about everyone else in the space at this point.  Fairchild, National, Harris, Burr-Brown... just about any common-as-dirt analog part these days seems to be made by them, with On Semi still carrying some of Motorola's old analog bits as well (I bought a bunch of ancient Motorola transistors from On Semi for my Wurlitzer 200 back when they still made them, about 12 years ago, but I suspect those ones have gone by now, but they still seem to make the old MC1408 DAC).

I'm not sure that consolidation is such a good thing in the long run, but for now, they seem to be relatively invested in keeping a lot of the old standbys alive, and even improving upon them (anyone used any of the new TL07x/8xH design yet? Looked interesting, but not really identical to the old lot...).


- Dave