On 5/19/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
>
> Neither am I. If I read my tealeaves right the 16-bit market will be
> small because the >8 bit market will be dominated by 32 bit
> architectures (ARM, probably others too).
>
> OTOH (literally!) I don't see any real (readily available) alternatives
> for the 10F's. Maybe Microchip should look down, not up.
>

Microchip has already got the low end market right. They are
already the No 1 in the 8-bit market in terms of unit shipment.
So they have to look up. They want to be a 2-billion company
so they got to be successful in the 16-bit market.

If Microchip would license the ARM core, then maybe it is
a different story. I think Microchip will beat Atmel and
Philips pretty easily in the ARM clone market if they
want to.

Regards,
Xiaofan

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