Spansion Memory Replacements on SemiconductorStore.com

The news regarding the largest Flash memory solutions focused company, Spansion, has been dominating the headlines for months.  A struggling company, Spansion tried to ward off the inevitable by conducting a series of massive layoffs and appointing a new CEO.  However, on March 1, 2009, the headlines read, “Spansion files for bankruptcy” (By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic News, 3/2/2009).

With Spansion Flash memory in products such as MP3 players, cell phones, digital cameras, and other consumer electronic devices, news of such magnitude has sent the semiconductor industry into a frenzy.  If you have Spansion in your product, what happens now?  What are your options?  There are arguably three real solutions:

1. Identify suppliers with products that cross to Spansion.
2. EOL buy inventory now.
3. Product redesign.

SemiconductorStore.com can help you find long term replacements for Spansion memory. A couple of good alternatives to Spansion are SST and AMIC, which have a lot of overlap in product specifications.  There are two cross reference documents below that can help pair parts that we have with the Spansion parts in your current design.

- SST / Spansion Cross Reference Guide	- AMIC / Spansion Cross Reference Guide
More on SST: SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs, flash microcontroller and radio frequency ICs and modules. See all SST products on SemiconductorStore.com	More on AMIC: AMIC offers its customers one of the largest memory IC portfolios available in the semiconductor industry today: Parallel NOR FLASH, Dual-Bank NOR FLASH, SPI Serial FLASH, DRAM, SDRAM, ultra low power SDRAM, Low Power SRAM, and Synchronous high speed SRAM. AMIC Memory IC portfolio is expanding rapidly. The healthy mix of both proprietary product development and dynamic company mergers around the globe have contributed to this success. Every day customers are experiencing the benefits of having a supplier with an increasing memory product range to support all their memory needs. See all AMIC products on SemiconductorStore.com