The fact that leadtimes for most electronic components continue to shrink rapidly indicates that supply is still strong despite efforts by suppliers to reduce production after inventory levels grew.The average leadtimes for 30 of the 41 items tracked monthly by Purchasing magazine (including most memory 1C types) shrunk in October.For example,delivery times for 16 megabit (Mb) flash memory fell from 16.5 weeks in September to 9.8 weeks in October.Sixteen megabit DRAM lead-times retreated from 11.4 weeks to 5.8 weeks and 64 Mb DRAMs shrunk from 9.2 weeks to 6 weeks.The only memory chip leadtime that expanded was 8 Mb flash which went from 8.6 weeks to 10.1 weeks.
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