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I'm seeing 1ku and 10ku on procurement documentation for purchasing motor driver ICs (TI DRV8811 and some others). Does this mean "one-thousand units"?
Sometimes I also see it written as kU (10kU) in the same context.
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4I would assume it's one thousand units. – John D Oct 25 '15 at 22:15
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I would assume the same, but I'm a beginner. I've never seen this terminology before, and I feel it's quite industry specific. – bento Oct 25 '15 at 22:40
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minimum order quantity – Oct 25 '15 at 23:07
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1kU refers to 1000 units. 10kU refers to 10,000 units.
You will often see this on a pricing schedule where the vendor or manufacturer specify pricing based upon committed quantity from the purchaser.
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1So something like $0.68|1ku means one needs to buy a minimum of 1000 units to have the price per unit of $0.68? – bento Oct 25 '15 at 22:53
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1ku = 1,000 units
10ku = 10,000 units
EE commonly uses the SI Metric Unit prefixes where 'k' is kilo, 1,000
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