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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Drat. NTE is gone, and they took the last 5-GHz PNP with them.
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 21:15:16 +1000
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On 5/09/2024 7:54 am, Phil Hobbs wrote:
> The NTE2403, similar to the BFT92, but a bit better overall.  Dunno who 
> actually made them. (I saw the news on s.e.repair today.)
> 
> Rochester claims to have 1,500,000 of the 2SA1462 (1.8 GHz) for 20 
> cents, but that's all she wrote.
> 
> I have a couple of reels of BFT92s and one of BFG31s, so I'm good for 
> protos and small production, but I can't use PNP wraparound bootstraps 
> for customer designs anymore. :(

But you could use the Renesa HFA3096, which includes two 5.5GHz PNP parts.

https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/hfa3046-hfa3096-hfa3127-hfa3128-datasheet

Not cheap, but still in production.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney