An apparently reputable firm here (New Zealand) is selling 16C54
clones for about 1/2 Microchip prices.


        Russell McMahon


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Eddy <ceddy@NB.NET>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: MChip lawsuits against Everybody : Update


>Alas, that is interesting.  I wonder if they are the folks that were
making
>the asia sourced 5X knockoffs that the cheerful fellow was hawking
on our
>PicList.  (Ages ago.. anyone out there remember?)  Just a neutral
curiosity,
>I always wondered who they were, if the part was a true compatible,
>etcetera.  The avid among us may still have it in an arcive
somewhere.
>
>Chris Eddy
>Pioneer Microsystems, Inc.
>
>Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>
>> >
>> I see Mchip actually got two guys in Taiwan thrown in
>> jail (7 months) for copyright infringements yesterday.
>>
>> Here's their gloat :
>> http://www.microchip.com/10/Edit/pRelease/PR103/index.htm
>