It’s like trying to get concert tickets for your favorite band’s farewell tour.

they are out of stock on W65C816S6TQG-14 chips. WDC is a very small player and they probably do die manufacturing runs every couple of years and then package according to the demand. Surprisingly Mouser has 24 chips in stock with more "promised" very soon https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-WD...

https://octopart.com/w65c816s6tqg-14-western+design+center-7...

The other half is a standard chinese ~$30 XC6SLX16 +32MB DDR3 dev board. https://www.fpga-cookbook.com/xilinx-development-boards/xili... https://github.com/ChinaQMTECH/QM_XC6SLX16_DDR3/blob/master/...

"Out of Stock" looks so much better than "Coming Soon". Like having a long queue of people outside of the nightclub to make it look popular.