The strange prices of chips at distributors (STM32F100 prices)

A while ago I bought some STM32F100C8 chips (64k flash, 8k sram) because they were cheaper than the F100C6 chips, 32k flash, 4 k sram. At least at the time. I was recently looking at them again, and decided to price chart the whole family of STM32F100Cxxxx, across Digiey, Mouser and Farnell (/Newark/element14 etc)

STM32F100C is the 48pin LQFP package. Results were interesting to say the least. Prices are for 100 units, so not huge scale, but more than just a couple of prototypes. Prices are in USD, and were advertised when I wrote this post.

Points of note

  • Newark/farnell cheaper almost across the board. That’s unusual for us, but we may have to look at them a bit more often now :)
  • DigiKey is the only one where the price actually goes up as you increase the specs. Mouser has the C6 cheaper than the C4, and Newark/Farnell has the CB cheaper than the C8
Part flash ram DigiKey Mouser Newark/Farnell
STM32F100C4 16KB 4KB 1.98 2.11 1.64
STM32F100C6 32KB 4KB 2.091 1.99 1.91
STM32F100C8 64KB 8KB 2.8085 2.93 2.89
STM32F100CB 128KB 8KB 3.239 3.09 2.87

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