On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Michael Rigby-Jones
<Michael.Rigby-Jones@oclaro.com> wrote:
> In terms of performance/$ PICs haven't made much sense for quite a long
> time IMO. =A0What they do offer that very few other vendors do is parts in
> hobby friendly packages and very low pin count parts.

I have to agree with this one. For corporate world, The thing Microchip
is good is more on the support and part delivery side. We still see good
support from local Microchip. But from the feedbacks in the forum,
being a bigger companies now, the support standard seems to be falling.

I will think Microchip will have to lower the part cost in order to
compete with NXP, Atmel, TI/Luminary and ST.

> FWIW we had the TI/Luminary guys in recently and they are developing
> some very exciting parts e.g. M3 with floating point unit, and purely
> FRAM based parts. =A0They also have sub $1 parts coming soon. =A0They also
> have some of the fastest flash memory around, meaning full speed with no
> wait states unlike the STM32 etc.

Yeah, TI/Luminary has quite some good parts. We chose to use
STM32 though. Both are very competitive for us. They beat the
offerings from Microchip (PIC24/PIC32) quite well in terms
of performance/price ratio. We have anyway existing investment
on the tool side (IAR EWARM licenses and J-Link JTag debuggers).


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