IC product is obsolete but limited stock
still available..
A China distributor we work with occasionally has 17 pcs in stock, they deal in overstock and discontinued silicon parts.. A few years ago, we bought 25K of a Sanyo video processor IC for a major USA AVR brand from this distributor so they could build AVRs for the 4th qtr. The ICs were not available due to an earthquake in Japan which had severely damaged the Sanyo IC factory. The replacement IC had same stock # but a different suffix, as it was for the OSD menu/fonts for
another well-known brand. We got samples of the IC, rewrote the AVRs' firmware to handle the revised font library and went into production for the crucial 4 th qtr. In appreciation for saving the 4th qtr, the president for this well-known AVR brand gave me a sizable $ bonus for the find...
Just my $0.02...