owa owa owa, hold your horses... this is not true.
There are some pl devices that can drain 420mA at 4MHz. :)
It is almost 2.5Watts!!! A heatter!!!, at least no humidity.
Philips PHD48N22-7 is 420mA, Philips 10H20EV8 is 250mA.
So, as you can see, much more than you said. :)
Wagner.

William Chops Westfield wrote:
>
> When talking about PIC circuitry, one must remember that "typical" GALs
> and such are real power-pigs, with the "quarter power" devices still
> consuming more in an idle state than a PIC running at full speed.  There
> are apparently lower power GALs, but they're much less common...
>
> (full power GAL like 22V10 = ~100mA...)
>
> In fact, one of the first possible applications of PICs that I thought of
> was as a lower-power (and more general) replacement for GALs and such
> (when speed was not a requirement.)
>
> BillW