RAM and flash both consume large amounts of silicon. If you look at the floor plan of any recent processor (intel, amd), you'll see that most of the area is consumed by Cache - on-die RAM. - Marcel On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:30 PM, solarwind wrote: > Why don't companies like Microchip add more RAM and flash to their 8 bit > chips? I mean, would it really kill them to add another chip with 1MB > flash/RAM to their product line? Why have I never seen a microcontroller > with more than 1MB flash/RAM? Is there some weird restriction that I'm not > aware of? (Besides the 8 bit system, that is). > > -- > ..::[ solarwind ]::.. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist