Re: Worst data sheets?

martin griffith wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:01:10 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


martin griffith wrote:


On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:09:43 -0700, in sci.electronics.design Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



MooseFET wrote:



On Jul 19, 10:37 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



a7yvm109gf...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


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That is part of the reason I just did a "design out" of one of the
Philips micros. NXP supposedly had an updated version but I couldn't
get the data*** so we switched to Atmel.


By now I believe they have a serious upper management problem at hand. What baffles me is that the investor group that bought Philips Semi appears to be blissfully unaware of what's going on. Or I shall say of what's not going on anymore.


from
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2802647.ecehttp://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2802647.ece


On Monday, NXP, which is owned by KKR, Bain Capital, Apax Partners,
AlpInvest and Silver Lake Partners, revealed a net loss of €266m for
the quarter and falling sales.


No surprise at all. And I can tell them exactly why (I actually did) but they do not seem to listen. Oh well, we can get our stuff from others, there are lots of competitors.


I somehow get a feeling of schadenfreude when I see this happening,
which I normally reserve for politicians


I don't. Philips is the company that got me hooked into the world of electronics when I received their EE20 kit at age 7 or so. Then at the university they were quite generous with parts and databooks. Consequently my design-in share for Philips used to be about 30% early in my career. Today for NXP it is close to zero.

To see a company like that go down the tubes is just sad.

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Regards, Joerg

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