From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Richard Kettlewell   wrote:   
   >>   6809> In 2015, Freescale authorized Rochester Electronics to start   
   >>   6809> manufacturing the MC6809 once again as a drop-in replacement   
   >>   6809> and copy of the original NMOS device.  Freescale supplied   
   >>   6809> Rochester the original GDSII physical design database.   
   >>   6809> At the end of 2016, Rochester's MC6809 (including the MC68A09,   
   >>   6809> and MC68B09) is fully qualified and available in production.   
   >   
   >It's still on their price list at over $100/unit in volume, which seems   
   >rather expensive. I wonder what their expected market is?   
      
   It's Rochester, so it's either military, aviation or space, and it might   
   be mostly for one customer.  They often will have a single customer willing   
   to put an obsolete item into production for a lifetime buy, and then they   
   put some more in stock while they are at it.   
      
   These are customers for whom engineering changes are very difficult and   
   usually require recertification (and sometimes even revalidation) so they   
   are willing to pay a lot to avoid a change.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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