To all list members, A few of us in Silicon Valley have been discussing the need for a Specctraquest "type", tools to be determined by market demands, Signal Integrity service bureau, similar to PCB design service bureaus. After researching the market, we have noticed that there are a small handful of EMS players that offer this service, but they concentrate on the "complete" system build for their top tier clients. We have also noticed that a couple of PCB design service bureaus have poked into this area, but typically will not pay for quality SI talent to do the job correctly and have gotten bad reputations already, the same can be said for a few top tier PCB fabricators. Has the market reached a point where outsourcing of these typically internal resources is a valid business model and under what conditions would you use, or not use, this type of service? Please respond, pro or con. All comments welcome. Sincerely, Shawn Arnold ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu