4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
11:17 a.m.
On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/04/2013 11:46 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Intel. Unless they stopped very recently, that is, which they may have,
because I myself don't design with them. But I know of others who do, and
their production lines are rolling, so the chips are still shipping.
http://components.arrow.com/part/detail/41878694S7345337N2937
You have to buy a whole tray at a time, which indicates that they're
not the kind of part one buys on a whim, but Arrow has over 8,000 in
their on-hand inventory. The article to which you refer probably
was talking about the 386DX and 386SX, both of which are definitely
EOL (but still also available in quantity from Arrow, even if only
Last I
checked, the 80386EX was still being produced, as inconvenient as
that may be for you, and as heartburn-inducing as it may be for me.
By whom, may I ask? from backstock). The 386EX is a stripped-down version
designed for
embedded markets, which typically also means a long part lifetime
(our customers typically want to START with a part whose manufacturer
guarantees a 10-year or greater manufacturing lifetime).
Hell, Freescale still manufactures original 68000s, though only in
QFP and only the more recent 68EC000 iteration (analogous to the
386EX, though without sacrificing any features over the original
CPU).
- Dave