On 5/10/06, Vasile Surducan <piclist9@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not very relevant, you're living probably next door to Microchip
> (I mean in the US). In the Europe there arent so many products with
> PICs inside like Atmel inside. Atmel is much cheaper here. Also the
> faster 8051 clones (which are many, some of them having already WIFI
> support inside)
> If you'll buy a japanese product,will have japanese microcontroller inside.
> You know what I'm saying.
>

I think that is quite true. I find out that Yokogawa used some
NEC78k0 and SH microcontroller for its PLC interface modules.
The information on using them are scarce over the Internet.
Renesas is slightly better than the other Japanese vendors by
having better documentations.

Atmel seems to be quite popular in Europe since it is cheaper there.

And there are a lot of Taiwanese MCUs which are very cheap and
quite popular in the Great China area (mainland China, Hong
Kong and Taiwan).

Regards,
Xiaofan

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist