At 07:02 AM 10/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Digikey is claiming to be getting more in December. I'd like
>to know what the hold up is on these Flash parts. It's
>been over a year since MicroChip started telling us about these
>parts!
>

The story I heard was that there is only one testing station capable of
testing the chips as they come off the line.  There is another one being
manufactured, but apparently these testing stations are very big ticket
limited production type devices and it takes a few months to have one
built.  All of the production coming out of the other tester is reserved
for the big dogs with high volume current production projects with these
micros.  I bought 25 of the 876's from digi-key when they had them and I am
using them all for first articles and pre-production samples.  I can only
hope that by mid-january they will be available in volume.  I may get bit,
I may not....

-Erik Reikes