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What I've read is that this is a hostile take over attempt, because
Atmel's board previously rejected the offers from the two companies in
pursuit (neither of which actually have the assets to consummate the
deal, per the reports). 

Atmel has been struggling, financially, with turmoil on the board.
With the depressed US markets, the Atmel shareholders may either want
to wait for recovery (they are all under water), or they want a fire
sale to cash-out. For the latter, the dirty trick tactics of going
public with this offer is a disgusting attack by greedy people looking
to kill competition and fatten the wallets of the company-pairs'
executives and shareholders. Then they leave yet another train wreck
behind them.



--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Zack Widup <w9sz@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Leon wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "harmon,jr sicat" <hcsicat@...>
> > To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: HOLY SHIT BATMAN!
> >
> >
> >> Just curious, Leon i've been reading your messages and something
keeps
> >> popping up my mind.
> >> Are you working for Microchip?
> >
> > No, but I don't like to see them being slagged off. They make
perfectly good
> > products. I actually use PICs more these days than AVRs, because
they are
> > easier to get hold of and Microchip's support is much better than
Atmel's,
> > and their tools are better.
> >
> > The wider range of devices means that a closer fit to a particular
> > application is generally possible, than with the AVR, in  terms of
number of
> > pins and features, reducing cost.
> >
> > Leon
> >
> >
> 
> I have nothing against PIC's either.  To my knowledge, Atmel does
not make 
> anything comparable to the PIC 10F200.  A 6-pin SMD microcontroller
will 
> fit in some timy places.  I made a Morse code keyer on a 1/2 inch
square 
> board (could've even made it smaller!) which can be tacked inside ham 
> radio equipment with double-stick tape or what have you.
> 
> I do like the AVR architecture better than the Microchip 
> architecture.
> 
> Zack
>