At 09:19 AM 12/23/96 -0800, John Magrane wrote:
>> Another thing I'd do is look at gearing up for masked part
>> production ability.  There's no upward migration path at Mchip when
>> my quantities are getting obscene.  If I can save $1.50 per part at
>> 20000 pcs/yr and mask tooling charges are only $3000-$4000, I can
>> easily justify the redesign/program costs to use another brand's
>> masked chip.
>
I have clients that are saving considerable money with ROM based chips for
some of their products. The OTP is the big sell until the code is stabile
even with high volume. With OTP you can also customize quickly in your
production line without getting stuck with NRE costs or a pile of obsolete
product.

Larry G. Nelson Sr.
L.Nelson@ieee.org
http://www.ultranet.com/~nr