I'll second Eric's comments on Mitsubishi (being hard to deal with).
When I was considering design ideas for a widget we eventually built
11,000 of, I called Mitsubishi to ask about a 'perfect for the task'
4-bit CPU that they had. I had a terrible time getting through, only
to find that they wouldn't even *talk* to me unless I could promise
an initial production run of 100,000+ pieces. Paid up front. (!)

Microchip sent me free samples and an apps engineer. Easy, huh?

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Mark G. Forbes