On 10/31/07, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interestingly they also list PIC24 along with Renesas M16C and H8S
> for code density and speed comparison. Of course in their benchmark,
> STM32 beat all three. Interestingly PIC24 beats M16C and H8S by
> a big margin and lose not too much to STM32.
>
> The PIC24 is cheap, good performance (up to 40MIPS, lose out
> to STM32 -->up to 72MHz or 80MIPS??). Harold is asking for
> more performance from PIC24 or its successor. It is very
> interesting to see what is the response from Microchip. Rumor
> is that they will develop PIC32, a 32bit PIC.

If they want to develop a 32bit MUC, I think they have sevearl choices.

1) Using an existing 32bit MCU core like those from ARM, espeiclaly the
new Cortex M3 where not many vendors are supporting it (Luminary,
ST now. TI is said to develop some new ones). Or they can use
MIPS since it just announced the new Core targeted toward 32bit MCU
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=E0BXFAWUYKDL4QSNDLSCKHA?articleID=202800129

2). Use the existing PIC24 and then extend it to PIC32.

3) Combined 1) and 2) just like Atmel with ARM and AVR32. Take note
Atmel is not backing Cortex M3 but choose to use Arm7/Arm9/AVR32.

I will tend to guess Microchip will go route 1.

Xiaofan
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