On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Chris McSweeny wrote: > Got no particular loyalty to one side or the other, and have in fact done a > lot more with PICs than AVRs, and still have chips and development stuff > from both, so just calling it as I see it. I would be very disappointed if 8 > pin AVRs disappeared any time in the forseeable future - we're not talking > about Microchip incorporating technology here, it would take a complete > design change for PICs to compete at this level! Rest assured that they will keep AVR lines, and majority of the MCU lines like ARM7/ARM9 and the to be released Cortex M3 line and hopefully the 8051 line (not so sure about AVR32 and the 4bit line). Russel posted the links in his reply. Microchip's Sanghi: Why we want Atmel http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210605543&cid=NL_eet -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist