§ Long-term supply
Your E1M is here for the long haul.
10-year minimum availability on every shipping E1M SoM. We commit the BOM, the silicon roadmap, and the SDK lifecycle so you don’t have to redesign your product every three years.
10-year minimum
AvailabilityEvery E1M module is guaranteed available for at least 10 years from its shipping date. Set in writing in the data sheet, and contractual on volume agreements.
Last-time-buy + 12 months notice
EOL policyWhen silicon hits end-of-life, we issue 12 months of advance notice and a last-time-buy window. No surprises mid-program.
PCN policy
Change controlAny Product Change Notice ships at least 6 months before the change. Form, fit, or function impacts trigger a full re-qualification path.
§ Why we can promise this
Longevity isn’t a slogan — it’s baked into how we pick silicon and write the standard.
Every choice on the E1M platform — silicon partner, mechanical envelope, pinout, SDK architecture — is filtered through one question: can a customer who designs us in today still ship the same product a decade from now? The answer has to be yes, even when any single piece of silicon underneath changes. Four mechanisms keep that promise alive.
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Industrial silicon partners
Renesas RZ industrial (15 yr), Alif Ensemble (10 yr), NXP i.MX 93 industrial (15 yr), DEEPX committed-roadmap accelerator. We pick silicon vendors who commit to industrial longevity — not consumer parts that EOL in three years.
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Same pinout, multiple silicon
The E1M open standard means if a SoC unexpectedly EOLs, we route a new SoM onto the same pinout. Your carrier board doesn’t change.
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Open spec — vendor-neutral
The E1M standard is published under CC BY-SA 4.0 on GitHub. Even in the unlikely event Alp Lab disappears, the spec survives and any conforming SoM keeps your design alive.
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SDK longevity, decoupled from hardware
Alp SDK is an open project; new SoMs are added as drop-in modules, not breaking SDK releases. Bug fixes and security patches flow to existing modules independent of silicon refresh.
§ Lifecycle policy
The policy, in writing.
Standard terms applied to every shipping E1M SoM. Volume customers can negotiate longer windows on top of these defaults.
- Minimum availability
- 10 years from FCS (First Customer Shipment)
- Active support window
- Full 10 years
- Last-time-buy notice
- 12 months minimum
- Last-time-buy lead time
- 6 months from notice
- PCN advance notice (form/fit/function)
- 6 months minimum
- PCN advance notice (minor)
- 3 months minimum
- RoHS / REACH compliance updates
- Rolled in via PCN
- Manufacturing site continuity
- Dual-source qualified fab + assembly
- Software (Alp SDK) maintenance
- ≥10 years of bug fixes and security patches
§ Current status
Every shipping SoM, every guarantee window.
Each module ships with a 10-year clock that starts at First Customer Shipment (FCS). When a SoM enters last-time-buy or EOL, that pill changes here first.
E1M-AEN
e1m-aen
ACTIVE · 2026-01 → 2036-01
E1M-X V2N
e1m-x
ACTIVE · 2026-04 → 2036-04
E1M-X V2N+M1
e1m-x
ACTIVE · 2026-04 → 2036-04
| Module | FCS | Guaranteed until | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| E1M-AEN e1m-aen | 2026-01 | 2036-01 | Active |
| E1M-X V2N e1m-x | 2026-04 | 2036-04 | Active |
| E1M-X V2N+M1 e1m-x | 2026-04 | 2036-04 | Active |
Coming-soon SoMs enter this table the day they FCS. See the product roadmap for current sampling status.
§ Need a longer commitment in writing?
Talk to us about extended-availability contracts.
Programs that need 12, 15, or 20-year guarantees — medical, defence, rail, regulated industrial — we negotiate term and last-time-buy windows in the volume agreement.