In the last Mexitronica 99 in Guadalajara City (mexico), i talk whit people of Motorola about of the new microcontroler, really are very good, in special the flash vertion, but the developed tool is a thirt party and the cost is next to $1,800 only the compiler. Francisco William Chops Westfield wrote: > http://www.eet.com/story/industry/semiconductor_news/OEG19991018S0042 > > Upshot: motarola planning to ship $1 flash-based part soon, AND: > > "All of our new designs will be flash-based instead of OTP > because we can offer this memory storage at about the same > price as the one-time programmable solutions," said Kilbane. > > I don't see how microchip can compete against that sort of thing unless > they get a lot more agressive with new parts, lower prices, and better > availability. (Motarola isn't alone, of course. Atmel and Scenix are > also essentially flash-only suppliers.) > > BillW Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="briones.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Francisco Armenta Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="briones.vcf" Attachment converted: wonderland:briones.vcf 3 (TEXT/CSOm) (0000E7D0)