ST is up and down for quite a while. Freescale is going down for losing both high-end and low end to competitors. Funny ----- Original Message ---- From: Xiaofan Chen To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06:42 AM Subject: Re: [PIC] PIC24 On the Radar Screen of Cortex M3 MCU Vendors 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist