On 1/15/06, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 1/15/06, Roy wrote: > I have not used any Freescale MCU though. We have some old > product still using the 68HC05 CAN controller but they are very > expensive now. > > From what I learned from the distributors, Freescale knows that > they are already far behind Microchip in the 8-bit market and they are > trying very hard to push HC08 and HCS08. Microchip is different, > they are far ahead in the 16-bit market so they are pusing dsPIC > and PIC24 to achieve their ambitious goal to be a 2 Billion company > in the near future. Sorry there is a typo in the above. It should have been: "Microchip is different, they are far ahead in the 8-bit market but they are not so strong in the 16-bit maket so they are pusing dsPIC and PIC24 to achieve their ambitious goal to be a 2 Billion company in the near future." Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist