# Why did LSM6DS3 breakout retire?

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/why-did-lsm6ds3-breakout-retire/42481>\
**Category:** IMU & Motion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/why-did-lsm6ds3-breakout-retire/42481 "2021-07-24T11:17:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlBo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@AlBo](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/AlBo)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/why-did-lsm6ds3-breakout-retire/42481/1 "2021-07-24T11:17:44Z")

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According to [https://www.systemplus.fr/reverse-costi … -axis-imu/](https://www.systemplus.fr/reverse-costing-reports/stmicroelectronics-lsm6ds3-6-axis-imu/) website, LSM6DS3, more precisely LSM6DS3TR-C, is the new IMU generation and [https://www.st.com/content/st\_com/en/se … cts-page=1](https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/search.html#q=LSM6DS0-t=products-page=1) defines it as obsolete so, why did you keep the LSM6DS0 breakout and retired LSM6DS3 one?

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**Author:** ![TS-Russell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/ts-russell/32/6092_2.png) [@TS-Russell](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/TS-Russell)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/why-did-lsm6ds3-breakout-retire/42481/2 "2021-07-26T23:19:57Z")

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Variety of reasons; we can’t get the S3 chips (shortage, this version is now about to be ‘obsolete’ as well), and haven’t made a board for the LSM6DS3TR-C (current version)…

But we still have some S0 chips/boards, so those are still able to be produced in the meantime.

Hope this helps make sense of things, and be on the lookout for our S3TR-C version when it’s released!