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Atmega168 Shortage?

thenoviceoof

Atmega168 Shortage?
March 24, 2010 03:51PM

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Is it just me, or are atmega168 chips in tqfp form just out of stock everywhere online?

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rocket_scientist

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
March 24, 2010 04:22PM

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Posts: 380

not quite everyone

newark atmega168 tqfp

off shore?

5 left

But yes, it does look like there are very few out there right now. Not sure if this is a typical part to not stock, like the 40pin DIPs.

Mike

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thenoviceoof

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
March 24, 2010 05:57PM

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Thanks, I guess I forgot about the newark one because of the $20 handling fee. I'll have to check out those other two.

tno

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Triffid_Hunter

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
March 25, 2010 05:13PM

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I think the atmega328P is compatible, so keep an eye out for those too

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Dylan

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 04, 2010 03:33AM

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Newark now has listing at 0
tayda actuall have the atmega8 which will NOT work (I tried, lol)
alldav is also out of stock.

I found a place that does have a buch, but a $50 handling fee.
I spoke to someone at mouser and they say they'll have some in a month or 2

pain in the booty.
If the 328 will work, I'll try getting one of those.

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annodomini2

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 04, 2010 02:01PM

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They have 7 at Sparkfun

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sheep

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 04, 2010 02:20PM

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I have a tube of 10 of them. Well one is in use, but the other nine I think are still in the tube. Most of my designs use the Mega88 which I have a lot of too.

If one is surrounded by rare and unusual things, does that mean that they are still rare and unusual?

-julie

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Dylan

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 04, 2010 03:35PM

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sparkfun is now out of the 328 and don't have any other tqfp that I see
they must have gone fast. lol.

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aka47

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 05, 2010 10:33AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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All means bad news for pricing....

Supply versus demand and all that.

Necessity hopefully becomes the absentee parent of successfully invented children.

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Forrest Higgs

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 05, 2010 12:50PM

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Sounds like arduino has outrun atmega's production capacity. That's bad. sad smiley

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freds

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 05, 2010 01:33PM

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They just released a new series of chips in the xmega line, production capacity might have gone to the new chips.

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aka47

Re: Atmega168 Shortage?
April 06, 2010 06:02PM

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Wonder if the 1280's are suffering similar supply issues. If So the Arduino Mega is in trouble.

Necessity hopefully becomes the absentee parent of successfully invented children.