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Well there is shortage of PHY chips. Decent TI chips go for 50$ a piece over broker. Minimum order quantity 200 pieces. We took ancient Realtek parts for 7$ fro
by lnsru 4y ago
Well there is shortage of PHY chips. Decent TI chips go for 50$ a piece over broker. Minimum order quantity 200 pieces. We took ancient Realtek parts for 7$ from broker. Normally it’s <4$. These are sad news from last 2 months. Regular distribution channels have zero stock with funny lead times of 1,5 years.
- walrus01 4y agoAt the quantities and price constraints that spacex is manufacturing the low cost home router/poe injector for the v2 and v3 standard model starlink terminals, however, i don't think they have any difference in purchasing power or use of low cost PHY compared to what you'd find in like a $50 mikrotik: https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s https://viva-telecom.org/images/MIKROTIK/hex-s_6.jpg https://viva-telecom.org/images/MIKROTIK/hex-s_6.jpg