[PROTEL EDA USERS]: PCB Fab House Capacity

[HxEngr@aol.com]

We've been tied up with a major design for several months, and are now ready 
to send two boards out for fab for prototypes. We are finding that all the 
PCB houses, for one reason or another, don't even want to bid on it. It's a 
moderately complex board, but nothing which stretches the state of the art as 
we understand it: 6/6 design rules, with blind & buried vias in a 6-layer 
FR-4 board. We thought we knew the business, having run quite a few prototype 
boards over the past few years. Have the rules of the game changed, or are 
the PCB houses just grossly overbooked?

Steve Hendrix