sburrow wrote:
Hello everyone!
I was looking around the internet for a place to buy 65C816 chips. Preferably not DIP packaging, though I'd like to see whatever is available.
Mouser currently has around 80 DIP, 30 PLCC, and 80 TFP. In comparison, they have thousands of 65C02's! Jameco and Digikey currently do not have any 65C816's.
Where do you go to buy your 65C816's normally? Any other places, besides eBay and the like?
I know it's not as popular a chip, but WDC is still making them, right? Should I fear that they stop producing them sometime soon? ...
Note that WDC is a "fabless" semiconductor company, so while they design them, and in addition to licensing the design, they may well order a new batch produced if stocks get low ... technically they do not make the chips.
While Mouser does not list the W65C816S parts as New parts, at least they are listed as Active. If they go off of the Active list, we might take that as reason to be worried whether batches are going to continue to be produced when stocks run low.