On May 19, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Bob Axtell wrote:

>>> 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).

I'm inclined to agree here.  I think the 8bit cores have gotten
faster and the 32bit cores have gotten cheaper, to the point
where 16bit cores are being squeezed out of existence (if there
ever were any true 16 bit cores. x86?  PDP11?)

Putting more into the very small chips would indeed be an
interesting strategy;  Large numbers of PWMs in a small package
is something that has come up several times, and has applications
in motor driving and etc...


>> If Microchip would license the ARM core...

Now THAT would be interesting...

BillW
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