AVR-Chat

Hey guys,

This might not be the place for such a discussion, but still..

check this press release:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en537485

I hope that this doesn't happen...
Atmel surely doesn't need it, I am sure its not doing all that bad.

Its not that I hate Microchip or anything, I use their stuff here and
there, but I like the open-ness of Atmel and its product users like
you and me.

It just wouldn't feel right if such a thing were to happen..

Anurag Chugh
UC Micro Systems (www.ucmicrosys.com)
Mumbai, India

Interesting, I sent a similar message a couple of hours ago, and it
didn't go thru.
(and I'm a moderator on here...)

Yeah.. Maybe they will fix studio and keep the AVR?  One can hope.
Hard to imagine them buying it just to kill it.

ON semi strikes again! I wish those people would stop trying to buy up everything...

Bruce


Anurag Chugh wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> This might not be the place for such a discussion, but still..
> 
> check this press release:
> 
> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en537485
> 
> I hope that this doesn't happen...
> Atmel surely doesn't need it, I am sure its not doing all that bad.
> 
> Its not that I hate Microchip or anything, I use their stuff here and
> there, but I like the open-ness of Atmel and its product users like
> you and me.
> 
> It just wouldn't feel right if such a thing were to happen..
> 
> Anurag Chugh
> UC Micro Systems (www.ucmicrosys.com)
> Mumbai, India
>

There are actually a few applications where I use a PIC instead of an AVR 
(the 10F200 is nice).

IF Atmel gets bought out, it would be stupid for them to discontinue AVR's 
though.  When a product is selling, you don't stop making it. Hopefully 
the only thing that might come out of it is better support for the AVR's.

Zack

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Anurag Chugh wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> This might not be the place for such a discussion, but still..
>
> check this press release:
>
> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en537485
>
> I hope that this doesn't happen...
> Atmel surely doesn't need it, I am sure its not doing all that bad.
>
> Its not that I hate Microchip or anything, I use their stuff here and
> there, but I like the open-ness of Atmel and its product users like
> you and me.
>
> It just wouldn't feel right if such a thing were to happen..
>
> Anurag Chugh
> UC Micro Systems (www.ucmicrosys.com)
> Mumbai, India
>
>
>
>

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz@prairienet.org> wrote:
>
> There are actually a few applications where I use a PIC instead of an AVR
> (the 10F200 is nice).
>
> IF Atmel gets bought out, it would be stupid for them to discontinue AVR's
> though.  When a product is selling, you don't stop making it. Hopefully
> the only thing that might come out of it is better support for the AVR's.
>

Rest assured that they will keep AVR lines along with ARM lines.

Microchip's Sanghi: Why we want Atmel
      http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210605543&cid=NL_eet

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

Microchip knows the value of AVR (often cheaper and better
than many PIC12/16/18). They will keep it and expand it.

Xiaofan

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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