[sdiy] Sic Transit OTA Mundi

[Don Tillman]

I received a response from Intersil this morning:

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Dear Don,

I will pass on your concerns but please understand, these CA family of
products were developed by RCA on a very old and obsolete fab process
that is long since been discontinued and the fab plant was shut down
and sold off. We have been living on wafer stock. Today the wafer
stock has been depleted to the point we have to withdraw the
product. We need to insure we have enough product remaining to support
the life time buys that are now incoming.

So, we reluctantly must withdraw these CA parts as our stock is
depleted and in good faith, notify our customer base in time for last
time buys.

Sorry 
Intersil corp.
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And I just replied with this:

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Thanks for passing my comments on.

The CA series parts are certainly old; I think most of them were
introduced before the Nixon administration (!!!).

Do you know if another company (like the one that purchased the old
fab equipment) is considering carrying on producction when the current
stock depletes?

Or would Intersil consider introducing an improved 21st century
version of the the CA3280, made in a modern fab?

 -- Don Tillman

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  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com