Microchip and ON bid for Atmel

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1222948 … lenews_wsj

what’s next? PIC91SAM7X512 and PICMega128?

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Looking at histor for other acquisitions, the acquisition or merger will kill most of Atmel’s products, as cultures collide.

Look at the Motorola spin-out that killed the 68000 family.

The IBM actions that effectively abolished the PowerPC.

And many lesser ones in the microcomputer world.

I hope not, as Atmel’s architecture and pretty bug-free chips are a great thing.

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Freescale still uses the 68000 architecture.

Leon

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I just hope that AVRs will stay. AVR microcontrollers like PIC microcontrollers have a huge community.

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Unlike Atmel, Microchip never kills off older devices.

Leon

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leon_heller:
Unlike Atmel, Microchip never kills off older devices.

Leon

Great stategy - keeps their existing customers happy and probably makes good money for MicroChip. Take the PIC16F84A as an example. You can still get it if you want but you pay a hefty price for it. A PIC24FJ will give probably 10x the performance for about half the price of an 84A. :lol: