Texas Instruments says fuck you to hardware designers and breaks the NE5532 and other devices Into incompatible versions.

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Texas Instruments says fuck you to hardware designers and breaks the NE5532 and other devices Into incompatible versions. (hackaday.com)

Entirely different manufacturing process
reduction in the supply voltage from 22V to 18V
halving of the ESD protection from 2kV to 1kV

My guess is the old part was getting expensive to manufacture, so they jewed the part.

- Entirely different manufacturing process - reduction in the supply voltage from 22V to 18V - halving of the ESD protection from 2kV to 1kV My guess is the old part was getting expensive to manufacture, so they jewed the part.

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From my point of view, you're correct: it's not the same part. It may be pin compatible, but certainly not behaviorally compatible. Static discharge is a huge problem now, the power rails are no longer the same, so it will fail. The slew rate... I don't even know where to go with that, that will break shit. Oh! The inputs are no longer compatible. It's a different bird.

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