> Unless the products are quite price-sensitive and high volume, it seems to
> me that PIC24s, programmed in C, would fill a lot of slots, at least in the
> long term
The 18F (non J) series is very nice to work with IMO, it's powerfull 
enough to support C, reasonablly clean for those who want to work in ASM 
and yet it doesn't sacrifice traditional pic strengths. The J series 
parts (which afaict includes all pic24's though not the related dsPics 
has crappy flash endurance (forget about using program memory as long 
term data storage and be prepared to rework boards during prototyping), 
runs on 3.3V (which is good for power consumption but sometimes not so 
good in other ways) has IIRC far less output drive on most port pins. 
Needs extra parts to support the core voltage regulator and so on.
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