On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:26:48 -0500, Ralph Malph <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Bob Perlman wrote:
>>
>> On 30 Dec 2003 09:53:47 -0800, [email protected] (Kolja Sulimma) wrote:
>>
>> >> If you think there's even a chance that you're going to be designing
>> >> in a certain component, get a formal price quote from the salesman,
>> >> rep, or distributor. And if you can't get a quote, maybe you can't
>> >> get the part, either.
>> >> > Bob Perlman
>> >> Cambrian Design Works
>> >
>> >The issue was, that the formal quotes for pieces in 5k quantities
>> >where a factor of 20 above the prices quoted by Xilinx for 250k
>> >quantities.
>> >And nobody in this group really believed that you get a 95% volume
>> >discount.
>>
>> If a formal quote for 5k pieces comes in at 20X a formal quote for
>> 250k pieces, that's interesting information. But if a formal quote
>> for 5k pieces is 20X the 250k price stated in a press release, that's
>> hardly surprising.
>>
>> Which is it?
>>
>> Any price you see in a press release should have a "j" after it.
>
>"J" for joke?

"J" as in "imaginary number." EEs employ "j" instead of "i" because
we use the latter for current.

Bob Perlman
Cambrian Design Works