On Tue, 30 May 2006, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>> Have Intel-made processors held a relevant part of the 8051 market lately?
>
> The loss of Intel 8051s is not so interesting, but this is the
> death of the 251, 196, and 960 as ARCHITECTURES, isn't it?  I
> don't think those were ever licensed to second sources (lots of
> places did their own speed-enhanced 8051 cores, but not actual
> 80251s...)  (In a way, this shows how far behind Intel had fallen
> in the microcontroller marketplace?  Have they really not had a
> leading microcontroller since the original 8051?  Wow.)

Intel do Xscale (==Arm). The time has come ...

Peter
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