On 5/17/06, Paul James E. <jamesp@intertex.net> wrote:
>
>  My 2 cents worth.  I believe that not only will Microchip take a
>  leadership position in 16 bit micros too, it will do that in only
>  8 years and not the 12 it took to gain the 8 bit leadership position.
>

I am not so sure. I have spoken to quite some people who are using
AVRs/8051s/ARMs and their perception of PICs are in general staying
at PIC16C/16Fs. The response is in general "Oh PIC, I know they are
simple to use but the architecture sucks and they are not good at
more complicated tasks". Apparently they do not know much of the
existence of PIC24/dsPICs. And if I look into the current consumption
of dsPICs, I won't use them either in the applications where power
consumption will really be an issue in small housings.

Regards,
Xiaofan

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