Re: One supplier for fast 65816?

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <20000209013259.14663.00001363@ng-bd1.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
>Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
>
>>Is there only one supplier for the 20MHz 65816?
>>It seems to me there would be more for embedded applications and all.
>
>According to the WDC web site, they license companies to
>produce large quantities of their chips for embedded applications
>but they only do this if the company is going to make a LARGE
>number of chips.
>
>For company aiming to sell to a small market like CMD to the
>C64/C128 market, WDC makes the chips.  Same for IIGS users.
>We must buy directly from WDC.  Alltech does not seem to be
>retailing them anymore either although when they did, they also
>bought the chips from WDC.

In case anyone else wants one, I have one left. $25US plus shipping from
Canada to where you are. E-mail me if you're interested.