In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, kgracey wrote:

Dear Customers,

Friday (September 18, 2009) was the last day to purchase your End of Life (EOL) SX supply and guarantee delivery. 

So, where to go from here? 

[b]A. If you placed an order on or prior to September 18, 2009 then you will receive the chips. [/b] 
We have booked your orders in our business software and chips have been allocated to you. You will receive your SX chips in December or January, as soon as they are ready from fab, packaging and testing. 

[b]B. If you didn't order chips prior to September 18, 2009 and have been caught by surprise with this EOL stuff, we should still be able to meet your needs with our overstock.[/b]. 
We have ordered 500,000 SX chips above and beyond our booked customer orders. You can view our current inventory levels of each chip on our web site where the chip is sold. See below for a screen shot example. 

At this time (September 2009) you will see that most of the chips are shown on the web site as "Out of Stock". This will change at least twice before we receive the overstock of 500,000 units in December or January. The first time it will change is in the next couple of days when we move inventory from our internal lockup to a sellable warehouse. These chips will sell out too but you'll see more appear in October. Then these will sell out and you'll see our final inventory levels show up in December/January when the 500,000 overstock units arrive. 

Therefore, you will have a few opportunities to buy SX chips between now and the time they are gone. We have no way of guessing how long our overstock supply will last. It could be a few months or five years - it all depends on who we were unable to contact with our notice. 

You could order chips on-line or place a Purchase Order. We recommend you get this done to guarantee your delivery.

[b]Parallax products that use the SX are not subject to this EOL notice.[/b]
We've stored a 15-year supply of SX chips for these products (BASIC Stamps, for example). 

As usual, please contact me if you are further confused or need some special assistance. The EOL process is frustrating for us, too.

Sincerely, 

Ken Gracey

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