On 6/28/06, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Good news from Atmel. Is this confirmed? Or is it just because you
are in a big company? My current colleagues in US is a bit surprised that
my previous company had problems with Atmel before. Then I realized
now I am in a bigger company and it is of course a better customer
for Atmel...

Regards,
Xiaofan
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