Ah, interesting about zerog... they've got what looks like the ideal product for a whole class of devices, it makes a lot of sense the mchp bought them for that reason alone. Pennies on the dollar sure helps too. Maybe some next-generation mchp microcontroller design will have zerog's IP onboard? that would be a first in the industry and really appealing. The $30 in small qty price for zerog is pretty reasonable, all things told. Hard to see designs manufactured in the 10K+ qty range using zerog, even if they are $25 to $20 in that qty, but actually getting anything like specs and pricing for 10K+ of a wifi module looks like a big headache, so who knows. You'd have to be saving a couple bucks per module to make it really worth pursuing. Just rambling, J Vitaliy wrote: > Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Vitaliy wrote: >>> A visiting FAE mentioned this today: >>> >>> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en546947 >>> >> This is kind of interesting. Not as interesting as the Atmel buy though >> which unfortunately failed through. >> >> They also bought the ZeroG recently, which is for sure a smart buy. >> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en546701 >> >> Microchip is now getting bigger and bigger. Hopefully they will still >> be as supportive and focus on improving the MCU offerings. > > Sanghi once said that Microchip buys "other people's mistakes", referring to > chip foundries. The rumor is that ZeroG's VC funding dried up and they were > bought for pennies on the dollar. > > Vitaliy > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist