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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:50:49 -0800
Subject: Re: [PIC] pricing on oldies and the future of the 18 pin PIC
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Oh yes, absolutely love that they do this.
(Was not suggesting that I thought it was a bad thing)





On 2/18/2020 12:42 PM, Chuck Olson wrote:
>> A long time ago at Microchip seminar, the Microchip rep doing the
>> presentation said that they never discontinue parts.  One of the
>> attendees pointed out that prices were going up on older parts and the
>> Mchip rep agreed/admitted that yes they do that in order to push people
>> towards the new parts.  And paraphrasing, something to the effect of
>> "... so if you have an older design that you can't easily migrate, but
>> willing to pay the price..."
> Neil -
>
> I think it's wonderful that Microchip still sells the old parts - used
> to use Motorola - I suspect they used to ditch microcontroller
> products when their big customers stopped buying them.
>

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