Cypress (now Infineon) no longer manufactures the S25FL164K0XBHI023 in the FL1-K series. No last-time-buy window exists; the part is already out of production.
108 MHz clock and Quad I/O — what the speed rating means
The 108 MHz clock frequency is the maximum SPI clock for Quad I/O reads. At that speed, the controller can fetch instructions or data at up to 54 MB/s (108 MHz × 4 bits). That is enough bandwidth to shadow-boot a 64 Mbit image in under 150 ms, or to stream firmware updates over the air without stalling the application. The 3 ms write cycle time per page (Word, Page) is typical for NOR — the controller must poll the status register or wait 3 ms before issuing the next write command. For OTA staging, plan a write buffer in the MCU RAM so the Flash write does not block the communication stack.
