Broadcom/Avago/HP diodes and MMICs
A heads-up for RF designers...
A large number of RF gain block RF/microwave ICs were made obsolete about 18 months ago on the grounds that turnover was insufficient to justify continued production. I and others spent considerable effort redesigning around their loss.
They've just issued another obsoletion list and it's huge. It looks like they're dumping all their amplifier and diode types.
Classics like the HP-2800 family of schottky diodes moved to SMT packages only some time ago, but at least you could get them. Now, it looks like they are all going.
It looks like someone has decided that if a part doesn't go in a laptop, tablet, or cellphone, it's going.
The maker was originally HP's internal RF semiconductor facility. Then HP ws split, they went part of Agilent. Agilent sold them off and they were bought by a financial consortium nd operated under the name Avago. A couple of years ago it looked like they were bought out by Broadcom, then explanations surfaced saying that Avago had bought Broadcom, which seemed a bit like the minnow swallowing the shark, and then deciding to rename themselves Broadcom.
I wonder what really happened, because it now looks like the Avago product line is being dumped.
David
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