Mike (and many others), good points. Another thing I have'nt seen mentioned is the electrical characteristics which is crucial in many PIC designs. That and the fact that most PICs are already low cost, especially compared to importing them from China. If I was specifying a large production run, I sure would want to know the details of the vendor and it's fab line... - Tom At 09:02 AM 10/27/98 -0500, Mike Keitz wrote: >On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:22:52 +0100 Stefan Sczekalla-Waldschmidt > writes: > >>But EZE seems to reside somewhere in China - and the enviroment ? - >>who >>cares... > >The 16F84's I have are stamped "Microchip" on the top and "China" on the >bottom... So Microchip is already onto this trick. > >There are several PIC copies already -- the Scenix, some by Holtek, and a >FPGA design. Mr. Zhu is not doing a very good job of marketing the >Chinese ones he claims to have. He's so coy about details we don't >really know what they can do. Apparently they won't work in a Microchip >programmer, which means they aren't exact copies anyway. A US >distributor would add a lot of credibility; if I send money to China and >the deal goes wrong, I have very little recourse (especially since >Chinese interests have bought all the US politicians). > > >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > >