The future of our hobby (legacy semiconductor manufacturers)

[William Maddox]

--- woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> PS Anybody have a list of NEEDED IC's
> re-manufactured for old computers?

Besides the many dealers that maintain stocks
of NOS discontinued components, I know of two
companies that license discontinued product lines
and will custom manufacture them:

  Lansdale Semiconductor  www.lansdale.com
  Rochester Electronics   www.rocelec.com

Lansdale, at least, appears to use a mix of die
made on other vendor's lines and in their own fab.

These outfits cater to the government and the
military, and I'm sure that the prices are
prohibitive for hobby purposes.  They do claim
to supply the regular distributor channels, so
they presumably must be making some parts as
part of a standard product line, but I've never
inquired as to price or availability.

--Bill