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TI has also cancelled distribution agreements with several of their top distributors recently. (Avnet, etc).

They have a few global distributors remaining, and if you talk to any of them for a new design, you'll notice they try to avoid promoting TI parts because of TI's new pricing and commission policies.

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I had noticed that the UK distributors that I use on a regular basis, RS and Farnell, have stopped hosting TI's datasheets on their sites. It makes it quite annoying to make a quick check to see if the part does what I want.

Whats up at TI? They used to be great for datasheets and Appnotes.

Does this indicate that TI are in financial trouble?

Nothing like making it harder to buy their products if they're in trouble!

It isn't unthinkable that some customer segments cost more to support than they generate in direct revenue - that is: are inefficient. So spending less on customers and sales channels that are inefficient may save them money.

I'm not sure that would explain them attempting to limit the availability of their datasheets though. That doesn't make much sense to anyone.

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