[sdiy] *Legacy* chips available now (saving for the future?)

[Brian Willoughby]

One thing that you might not be aware of is that chip makers (the good ones) will tell you how long they're planning on making a chip, and will even announce a "lifetime buy" situation where you need to buy all you're going to need before they stop. Other common terms are "NRND" (Not Recommended for New Designs) and then some generic terms for In Current Production.

The established companies are well hooked into this relationship with the chip makers. I guess it's just the lowly repair industry that's stuck with "unobtainium."

Brian


On Nov 28, 2020, at 20:06, Greg James <gjames at kddlab.com> wrote:
> So I’m looking at the current THAT2180A thread and a lot of past threads about various contemporary chips and alternatives, and the thought came to me:
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> A lot of people (myself included) have been in the position of wishing they had bought a few “survival kit” spares of various electronic components before they went “unobtanium”. So I have a proposal: can the members of this forum, who are very well informed, come up with a list of currently available chips that we collectively believe sometime in the future we would have wished we had bought a few of when they were readily available (like right now 😊)!
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> This suggestions could lead to a group buy, which I would be willing to help out with.
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> Greg