Embedded guy here. I love old cores. All the quirks are known, and the price continues to drop year-after-year which is great for my BOM and thus my margins.

Embedded guy here. I love old cores. All the quirks are known, and the price continues to drop year-after-year which is great for my BOM and thus my margins. I'm still shipping HCS09 cores from 20-30 years ago. NXP will be making these until the Sun explodes. So what's your beef about a part being "old"?