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If we lost Digikey, Mouser, and AVNET, it would be catastrophic. Entire US engineering divisions would leave for Shenzhen.
by 0_____0 7mo ago
If we lost Digikey, Mouser, and AVNET, it would be catastrophic. Entire US engineering divisions would leave for Shenzhen.
- nine-one-two 7mo agoWhat about farnell and arrow?
- joezydeco 7mo agoBe careful with Arrow. They like to ask what you're working on and if they discover an opportunity to bid on the same work they'll undercut you.
- elevation 7mo agoHow would Arrow undercut you? An R&D firm I know is constantly spinning low volume prototype designs with wildly different BOMs; they treat Arrow reps like North Korean spies. But another crank-turning design firm I know trusts Arrow to do BOM reviews because of how many times they’ve come through with a reel of hard-to-find parts, making a design manufacturable in a pinch, unlocking sales. The exact same Arrow rep serves both firms, I’ve never figured out why he is treated so differently.
- joezydeco 7mo agoI was in the first type of firm. We were working on an IoT edge device for a large restaurant chain as a subcontractor to an equipment company. Arrow figured out what the project was and who the end customer was and approached them directly with a presentation on their in-house design services and fabrication. Skipping the OEM allowed them to undercut us on price and schedule.