On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> If I am not mistaken these are the very first 32-bit =20
> microcontrollers in a hobbyist-friendly (DIP) package!!

Yes, it will be interesting to see if Microchip gets laughed at or ... =20
followed by the industry as a whole.
TI made a similar decision with their low-end MSP430 chips; the first =20
MSP430s release in DIP form were well into the product-line =20
lifecycle.  Since there have been followons since, I guess it hasn't =20
been seen as an internal disaster. (The infamous LaunchPad would have =20
been cheaper (to manufacture) if the target CPU had been SMT...)

BillW

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