The 96 KB RAM is enough for moderate TCP/IP buffers and a small RTOS heap; designs that need larger packet queues or display frame buffers should budget external SRAM via the EBI/EMI interface.
Texas Instruments has marked the LM3S9B95-IQC80-C5T as obsolete. No official successor order code is listed in the current lifecycle record. For new production, a pin-compatible drop-in is not guaranteed; the closest functional path is to evaluate a current TI Cortex-M4 or M7 part with Ethernet and CAN, but that requires a board respin and software migration.
