AVR-Chat

On Friday 03 October 2008 07:37:14 pm Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> And if the bid is successful, the AVR user can have a more stable
> supplier and not worry about product obsolescence. In my previous
> job, our German counterpart are using AVR almost exclusively
> but was burned when Atmel obsoleted all the AT90S.

> Now 
> Atmel is much better (but just obsoleting some 5V EEproms
> causing redesign in my current job)

Atmel has obsoleted some flavor of Dataflash about every
18 months.

> but Microchip is famous to  keep their product long life.

The parts that Microchip have obsoleted in the past,
are the ones that were build on fabs that they did
not control.  Some of the TDK analog parts of example.

Microchip does not, currently, control the Atmel fabs,
so it would be bad to assume they won't kill something
based on Microchips history.



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