Examples:
-esp8266
-RTL8710
-Atheros AR9331
-Any Allwinner SOC
The completely obvious ones are Ebay, Aliexpress, etc...
I'm not actually asking where to buy them, I'm asking about a legitimate place to buy them. There's no disputing that buying parts from vendors such as Digikey, Arrow, Mouser gives a certain level of confidence that you will have a stable supply in the future - this is in contrast to some shady ebay individual that may or may not be around tomorrow.
Are there certain quality control issues with the manufactures that don't jive with the vendors? Or do the manufactures only sell in massively high volumes? (that eventually trickle down to small vendors) - I thought Allwinner's SOCs were built into most Android tablets??
My question / point of conversation is: If I was a company designing a tablet, where would I start if I wanted to design around some of this silicon? Contact the companies? Just buy from shady vendors?
Is there a centralized location where I can browse all this ridiculously cheap stuff? With a price tag on different quantities etc?
-esp8266
-RTL8710
-Atheros AR9331
-Any Allwinner SOC
The completely obvious ones are Ebay, Aliexpress, etc...
I'm not actually asking where to buy them, I'm asking about a legitimate place to buy them. There's no disputing that buying parts from vendors such as Digikey, Arrow, Mouser gives a certain level of confidence that you will have a stable supply in the future - this is in contrast to some shady ebay individual that may or may not be around tomorrow.
Are there certain quality control issues with the manufactures that don't jive with the vendors? Or do the manufactures only sell in massively high volumes? (that eventually trickle down to small vendors) - I thought Allwinner's SOCs were built into most Android tablets??
My question / point of conversation is: If I was a company designing a tablet, where would I start if I wanted to design around some of this silicon? Contact the companies? Just buy from shady vendors?
Is there a centralized location where I can browse all this ridiculously cheap stuff? With a price tag on different quantities etc?
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