In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, kgracey wrote:

What Mike said, exactly. But to your point about supply, Dave, I'm hoping our inventory lasts a while so we can properly support the designs who didn't get our EOL notice. I'm sure that many customers will place their multi-thousand unit order in a year when they find out they're late to read the EOL notification. On Monday we place our last order, unfortunately. Much planning and data analysis has gone into the quantities from our purchasing, marketing and financial teammates. I hope we get it right. Ultimately at least 25% of our final inventory levels will be a guess, so we're overshooting the wafer quantities to build. Consider that you're talking to a guy who was caught short-handed when the SX52 went EOL. 90% of the customers used the SX52, but 90% of the volume was with the SX48.

Regarding the PIC -- it took us years to get PIC tools out of our business model because they take a lot of support to manage. Everybody makes PIC programmers and we'd offer very little value in an already-crowded market. Yawn. Best success to those in the business. I know what a 3rd party is up against in supporting the many models and variants. 

Our trajectory is forward, with our own chips! The enthusiasm we've got for creating our own products is an elephant driving a steam-roller through our office. The BASIC Stamps and Propeller have many internal goals wrapped around them in our office, and our motivation is really high when we see customer success around these products. For the long term, Parallax product line is about Propellers, BASIC Stamps, sensors, robotics, and education with modifications to our plan as guided by our customers.   

We are very excited about the future. Next month we're going to Taiwan and China to meet with the various Prop 2 suppliers in packaging, wafer fab, and testing. Chip is making some early rumblings that I'm taking as a clue to prepare. 

Thanks for hanging in there with us through the EOL news about the SX.

Ken Gracey

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