Editing Motorola 6800 (section)

== Second sources ==
A common requirement for manufacturing companies was to require two or more sources for every part in the products they made. This ensured they could get parts if a supplier had financial problems or a disaster. Initially Motorola selected [[American Microsystems, Inc.|American Microsystems Inc (AMI)]] as a second source for the M6800 family. [[Hitachi]], [[Fujitsu]], [[Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild]], [[Rockwell Semiconductor|Rockwell]] and [[STMicroelectronics|Thomson Semiconductors]] were added later. <!--Hitachi second source for 6800, Dec 11 1975 page 39 Electronics--><!-- Rockwell second source InfoWorld Oct 17, 1979-->

[[Rochester Electronics]] was authorized by Freescale/Motorola in 2014 to continue manufacturing any of the 8-bit peripherals and 8-bit processors of this era. Rochester specializes in fully authorized device duplication. Freescale has provided all the source design archives to enable [[Rochester Electronics]] for this product and others. At the end of 2016, Rochester was fully qualified and shipping the MC6802 processor, the MC6840 PTM, and the MC6809 processor (including the MC68A09, and MC68B09 versions) and can still be bought today.

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File:KL AMI S6800 Black Background.jpg | AMI S6800 MPU
File:Atari 90 6001 1.jpg|Atari 90-6001
File:Fairchild 6802 AMI 6820.jpg | Fairchild F6802P and an AMI S6820 PIA
File:Hitachi HD46800 1.jpg | Hitachi HD46800
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