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From: bryan@isrc.sandia.gov (Jon R Bryan)
Subject: Re: Extinction of MC68HC811E2FN?!?!?
Message-ID: <1992Nov5.184202.947@isrc.sandia.gov>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:42:02 GMT
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fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin) writes:
: 
: Motorola has had trouble keeping up with the demand for these things
: for as long as the chip has been available, about three years now.  I
: wish they would get their act together and just make more of them.
: 
I have been told by a Motorola rep that they have more production
capacity devoted to the HC11 than any other chip they produce.  Making
more would require building another fab line, an expense they are
apparently unwilling to incur.
-- 
Jon R. Bryan	(505) 844-2015	<=>	bryan@isrc.sandia.gov
Sandia National Laboratories, Intelligent System Sensors and Controls
 
