At 11:59 AM 7/21/01 +0100, you wrote:
>No-one produces chips like this 'just in case' - I wonder what the
>intended vtarget application is  - a single-chip car perhaps ?
>Must be something pretty special to justify that number of I/Os!

According to Matsushita:

 Major Applications
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 DVCs
 DSCs
 Digital video recorders
 Hard disk recorders

IOW, digital consumer electronics, just like they themselves make.
Note the thing is only 13mm square. (0.5" x 0.5"), about the
area of a DIP-28.

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