Dataquest July 2003 Data (from Sunplus website)

Top 20 8-bit MCU vendors according to unit shipment

1. Microchip
2. Motorola 	Now Freescale
3. ST
4. NEC
5. Atmel
6. Sunplus		Taiwan	http://www.sunplus.com.tw
7. Hitachi		Now part of Renesas
8. Fujitsu
9. Philips
10. Toshiba
11. Mitsubishi	Now part of Renesas
12. Samsung
13. Elan		Taiwan	http://www.emc.com.tw
14. Winbond		Taiwan	http://www.winbond.com
15. Zilog
16. Sanyo
17. Matsubishita
18. Infineon
19. Holtek		Taiwan	http://www.holtek.com
20. National Semi

Out of the first 20 companies, Ubicom and Silabs (Cygnal)
seems to have some interesting parts as well. I heard of
ACE but only heard of. :) I found my company is now using
company 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,11,15,18 with Microchip and Atmel
being the more preferred vendor.

The people here should be quite family with them except
the Taiwanese companies. They are normally in the high volume
consumer electronics products produced in the Great China 
region (Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan).
SAR stands for special administration region or similar.

Xiaofan

>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:06:10 -0800
>From: William "Chops" Westfield <westfw@mac.com>
>> What other microprocessor manufactures compete against PIC & Atmel?
>
>Motorola, TI, Ubicom, Cypress, fairchild (has anyone actually USED an 
>ACE?)and a whole slew of 8051s (philips being the big "small"
microcontroller
>vendor in the 8051 space, along with Atmel.)
>
>BillW
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