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Is anyone making any new m68k chips these days? I looked for a hobby project earlier this year and it looked like Freescale was doing their best to sunset it.
by notwokeno 4y ago
Is anyone making any new m68k chips these days? I looked for a hobby project earlier this year and it looked like Freescale was doing their best to sunset it.
- eschneider 4y agoNot sure, but there are a lot of them in the field and, well, maintenance is a thing.
- 0xcde4c3db 4y agoI went through a similar process a few years back. As far as I know, there is some extended availability through Rochester Electronics, but I don't know if anyone's still actually fabbing them or if they're dicing/packaging out of a stockpile of NOS wafers or what. I'm not aware of anyone still having a 68K/ColdFire chip that is "recommended for new designs". I also read somewhere that the 2011 earthquake+tsunami destroyed the only fab that had still been producing the original (well, CMOS) 68K-family chips, and Freescale had been planning to close that fab anyway.
- zozbot234 4y agoThe Vampire accelerator by Apollo Computers (which is FPGA-based AIUI) is not officially an m68k chip, but it's been developed as a drop-in replacement.