At 07:06 04/21/99 +0200, Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>On the high-end parts - hahahahaha. It doesn't even feature
>in the equation. If you use 17CXXX PICs, you deserve to be
>ripped off. You get more than double the features in flash
>from Motorola than from the PICs at *the same price*.
>
>If I read you last paragraph again, it seems that we agree
>that there shouldn't be such a difference between competitors.

but there is... anybody an idea why?

- microchip parts have some advantage(s) over the others which you don't
mention?

- microchip has higher production costs and simply can't go lower?

- microchip bets that enough of their customers are "followers" who for
whatever reason won't switch to another brand even if cheaper and/or better?

- microchip simply doesn't know?

- microchip sells more than they want from the bigger parts anyway, and
doesn't care about loosing some of that segment?

- ...?

ge