On 10/31/07, wouter van ooijen wrote: > > Wondering How big a market for 30-60MIPS? > > For end user, the higher the MIPS, the better for most of the case. > > That's where the ARM uC's are strong now. I doubt Microchip could beat > the NXP chips in this arena on price and features. There might be a > niche left for DIP chips, but I doubt that is large enough. > NXP is not really cheap other than the a few low end device. And PIC24H is actually pretty cheap. http://www.gnuarm.com/ArmDevices_frame.html http://www.microchip.com/ParamChartSearch/chart.aspx?branchID=8186&mid=14&lang=en&pageId=75 The Cortex M3 based MCU is supposed to be cheaper than those Arm7 based MCU according to ST. They say their price will beat NXP to death. Let's wait and see. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist