On Jun 28, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Luis Moreira wrote:

> This also applies to Altera which now is offering great
> products, but in the past has had very serious problems.

For that matter, Atmel had some serious availability issues
with their AVRs for quite some time.  IIRC they bought a few
extra Fab lines, ramped up production, and solved that problem
just in time for the high-tech market to collapse :-(  But
I haven't heard of it being a problem recently.  (They still
have vaporware issues, it looks like, and they're getting
flak over replacing products with "near equivalents" without
maintaining production of the older parts.  As far as I've
seen, NO ONE does that as well as microchip.)

BillW
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