Farnell took Newark over a few years ago.

OK, that explains it :-).

Newark always had some interesting semiconductor stock from HP (now
Agilent... too many name changes!). Finding what they have in stock is
certainly easier now that I can search on the web, but I'd probably buy
more from them if they improved their web interface so I didn't have to
type in every single part number that may be useful to me just to see
if they carry it.

I just tried Newark/Farnell for some passive searches and indeed
they've recently updated their search interface so that it's a lot like
Digikey's.

Tim.