What are you paying for the 52' and in what quantities?  I was told
by Future Active that they could match the price of what I've been getting
the 54A' for (such a deal! NOT!).  After I told them that I expect the
price to be much less, they came down 15%.  I've been buying '54A-04 from
DIGI-KEY for $2.51 in 100 qty.  Never did get my sample from them.


At 03:12 PM 5/2/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Just to let other people know. I asked sereval sources about the
>difference between the PIC16C52 and the 54 and was told it was just less
>program memory and a change to the reset vector. So I swapped over to
>using the 52 as all of my products fit in the memory and the cost
>savings are about 50%. All of my products work fine except one which
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