[sdiy] Blimey

Mattias Rickardsson mr at analogue.org
Sun Sep 6 23:55:31 CEST 2026


Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> skrev:

> Actually I did find someone else who used DI recently and that was AKM on
> the 150mm line at their Nobeoka LSI Plant in Japan.  But that burnt down in
> 2020 and AKM also had to obsolete a whole raft of ICs.
>

What?! The AKM fire destroyed another fab with the same process? Wow, that
makes a pretty abrupt ending to DI in audio. :-/
The AKM fire was stressful, I had to make some quick emergency redesigns in
the middle of both covid pandemic and general chip shortage. But today's
memory chip turmoil is probably much worse. :-)

/mr

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