RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: PCB Fab House Capacity

[Steve Smith <smiths@stacoenergy.com>]

We recently talk to the people at Data Circuit Systems Inc. in
San Jose, California, and they tell use that some houses have
gone out as far as 3 to 4 months on delivery. They are still in
the 2 to 4 week range (www.datacircuits.com).

Steve Smith
Product Engineer

Staco Energy Products Co.
Web Site: www.stacoenergy.com


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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:58 AM
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Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: PCB Fab House Capacity


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