Manufacturing Industry
Leadtimes are mixed.(electronic component leadtimes)
Purchasing, October, 2004
Electronic component leadtimes have been volatile over the past three months with delivery times fluctuating dramatically. For instance leadtimes for 16-bit microprocessors doubled from 5.9 weeks in August to 12 weeks in September. Other leadtimes that increased significantly were 16 megabit DRAMs which stretched from 6.2 weeks in August to 11.4 weeks in September and bipolar logic which moved out from 6.5 weeks to 10.9 weeks.
In total, 22 of 41 leadtimes tracked each month by PURCHASING magazine stretched in September from August. Meanwhile, the average leadtime for wire-wound resistors dropped from 8.1 weeks in August to 3.5 weeks in September. In addition, nickel metal hydride battery leadtimes fell from 7.3 weeks to 4.1 weeks and carbon film...
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