We place the 4K pcs order and made the earnest money to TI agent at mid of Oct. in 2010 .
At first they replied us delivery at mid of March in 2011, later they change to end of April.
But in May. , they still can't delivery the chips.
Here is TI agent first email at May
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We are in process of finishing and testing this solution, but we do not expect to be able to ship until June.
If the customer would like to consider alternative parts, the only pin to pin options are other PCM1704 products. We have PCM1704U and PCM1704U-J in stock, but these have a difference in performance.
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Later they send the second eamil
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Thanks for your kindly feedback.
We do really have no wafer to support to pull in now.
Please kindly try to work with customer if possible- For a high quality audio converter, at half the price, we suggest the PCM1792A (or the hardware controlled PCM1794).
Please kindly let me know if you need any technical support for technical questions about these alternative parts
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Two days early they return the earnest money to us without 2 cent accrual .