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

Chuckz,
In some ways, the Propeller is the SX replacement.  Remember that Parallax has no control over the situation with the SX.  It's all tied up in an intellectual property dispute between Microchip and the owner of the SX design.  The Propeller is an attempt to make a unique microcontroller based on Parallax's experience in the business of marketing microcontrollers for years.  Parallax owns the Propeller.  They can develop the market for it secure that no one can take it away in the future.

As Ken and others have mentioned, there's no future in Parallax marketing someone else's low end microcontroller except as a "commodity" component of a larger product like in the BS2pe MoBo where there are two AVRs that act as peripheral processors for the Stamp.  It's too expensive for Parallax to support some other microcontroller that has very low margins and is pretty well supported elsewhere.

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