About Mini2440's life expectancy as a product.

Hi to every one.

My concern is about if it is safe to base a new design on the Mini2440.

All of us have could see the new Mini6410 board, which seems to be a
terrefic product but its price is higher than Mini2440 and could be an
overkill for certain applications. Up to now, there is no notice about
plans to discontinue the Mini2440, but I searched on the Sansung ARM9
processors page and the only one whose Production Status doesn´t show as
"Mass Production" is the S3C2440.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productList.do?fmly...

Some one is well informed about my concern?

Thanks for reading and best regards.

Up..

I would like to know.

HI Ferite,
          I'm not sure but recently came to know that mini2440 production
is going to stop and more over it is better if you can contact
friendlyarm.net as well samsung , if you placing a bulk order then thy
might assure you of product as active even for futher support.

Actually I was told by our distributor that we can expect some years more,
having Mini2440 availables. Of course, it would be helpfull if some one of
the FriendlyARM staff could clarify this better. So, Mindee if you read
this please help us with this question.

Thanks.

Hi, Ferite

the mini2440 would not be stopped except Samsung would stop the chip, but
maybe have a change or improvement in the future. and Mini6410 is in a fast
updating now. So I think no hardware change on mini2440 in months. it's
well known and with many open source software, no one would like to give it
up.

regards

mindee

Thanks for the quick answer mindee.

Best regards.