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

[quote="waltc"]
Worse these folks have new product lines every 18-24 months and fat advertising budgets to get the word out.

[/quote]Actually, you hit the nail on the head. I want a chip that will be around for 20 to 30 years, not something that is released, and then vanishes in a couple of years. All of the other guys you mentioned are into big sales, in fast evolving products. That means that the markets come and go with the tide, and lots of the chips do the same. 
 

This is why the SX has been a good seller for Parallax. If Ubicom didn't want to walk away, Parallax could keep selling these things forever.

 

Now that parallax has the Prop Chip and they own the IP, they could rip one cog out and build a chip around that. The language tools could remain the same or very similar (No reinventing the wheel), and the chip should be easy to design (because they have a good template). 

 

Again, the Prop looks like a really really nice chip, but it's overkill for everything I do. Run one cog at 100 mips, and they'd do everything I need them to do. 

 

-Dan

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