Bob Blick wrote:
>
> Yeah, you tell 'em, Tjaart! Microchip is working their way into a niche
> market. There are lots of people who support that niche, but some are
> beginning to feel an itch. There are too many other players in this market
> now for Microchip to sit on their laurels.
>
> On the other hand, I am waiting for the dust to settle before I decide to
> switch horses. Luckily the end product is expensive enough that the extra
> price for a PIC is not significant in the things I design. But an extra
> dollar(or several) will eventually make me switch. I can imagine how it is
> for people designing low margin products with lots of competition.

I was gunning for a high-volume application on the Scenix using
a command parser, but it turned out that the external RAM would
have made it unfeasable. It was a real let-down, but maybe next
time.... We are currently bidding for two projects that can run
our products into 100k's per year, so a dollar here and there becomes
a fortune everywhere.

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