>Microchip UK will not sell direct, and their regstered
>stockists have mostly not even heard of it yet!

Can they not tell you who has bought stocks off them?

I would have thought Crownhill would be a good bet
http://www.crownhill.co.uk/ even though they do not show them on the web
page. I have always found their adverts in the magazines to show more
devices then the web page. Probably worth phoning them.

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