awesome on that linear devices lsk..
why don't the manufacturers do more of these? I dont really know the intricacies of semi fab, but it cant be like setting up a factory for a car model. some section/lab in some facility, they get the photolitho plates, the chemicals, etc, (assuming all the supplies are there what, a day or two to set up?). begin production of a little range of the most desired extinct discretes, make a few giant cases full (they don't go bad if stored properly right?) and sell them. if someone can enlighten me on the theoreticals on time/number of people/prohibited chemicals; how many sold to break even (although I imagine it as a "look, we're a great company" loss leader *actually, having looked at the LSK for $14 each on digi, they're not going poor selling them ).
I mean, SONY restarted vinyl record production again. china knocks off all non Chinese products- in the semiconductor case here they cant, they just create a non-working forgery.
real manufacturers can go "hey, since we love you wealthy, influential Americans, we will make these available through X distributors or direct- in quantities 5, 10,15 of (no buying a case then send them to china (which doesn't make sense. why would they buy at retail what they only want to resell) or resell on ebay). we support America, diy, right to repair (no user serviceable parts sticker sill in force on our money making things, like flat-screen televisions lol)
Oh, related- does anyone still make vacuum tubes, besides the mystery black hole that is the shenzen industrial area (or wherever. a china joke)?
I remember that after the VW beetle stopped production, they sent the tooling to brazil. then south africa. then to india. new old beetles are probably still being made somewhere. with duller and duller dies. maybe the khyber pass gunsmiths can sharpen them up.