Every one will agree that they had a nice run.There's this document floating around from Zilog:
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Basically saying that their foundry is going to no longer produce any new Z80 chips. (At least that's what it sounds like.)
Not that I think we'll be running out any time soon, but notable nonetheless.
I'm hearing murmurings from the arcade crowd that a few of the larger shops are willing to commit to one last monolithic order in the hopes they can keep stock for another 20 years. If they don't eat the last batch I'm sure people will be starving for more chips for a while.That’s a bit annoying.
Maybe one of those gray market foundries in China that churn out clones of some other seriously obsolete chips will start spitting out copies if there’s enough demand for them. I dunno how much demand there really is, though; the price of new build Z80’s have been pretty out-of-whack high for years so it’s pretty certain it hasn’t attracted many new design wins outside the hobby sphere.
...who will purchase their inventory from China.Eventually Rochester Electronics will become the most valuable US semiconductor manufacturer.
Does this mean stuff like DIP packaged 74xx will be disappearing from Mouser, etc.?TubeTimeUS has been saying for a while now that whole product lines are being slashed by MBA driven companies like TI.
Eventually Rochester Electronics will become the most profitable US semiconductor manufacturer. They buy mask rights and
old fabs and charge what the market will bear for old semiconductors.
You did see the news item about China turning toward manufacturing legacy chips in light of the US export embargo? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...on-juggernaut-production-jumped-40-in-q1-2024wrong
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Aw, then my XC9000 CPLDs will no longer be eBay R@RE.Perfectly logical thing to do given how many older tech fabs they're bringing up.
I'm waiting for one of them to start building 5v tolerant FPGAs again.