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I tried to get some estimate from previous contacts at TI who referred to use this forum to ask question about the availability forecast of this component.
I got a generic recommendation earlier "The availability question is a tricky one – official answer from TI is: the part is on status ACTIVE so we refer to Product life cycle | Quality policies & procedures | TI.com and our non-obsolescence policy. Since the part is a bit older, I would advice to start a support request on http://e2e.ti.com/.
Could a TI representative help to answer how the future availability of this component looks at the moment?