Lpc2000

Hi Tsvetan and ?

it is a fact that Atmel has done a great job copying Philips devices
in the 51-world and adding some additional nice features. Atmel wasa
definitely earlier with ARM on the general purpose microcontroller
market and Philips did not copy but came out with a much more
innovative family, the LPC2000. Now Atmel is ready to copy again (no
offense ;-) and add some additional features. 
In the end this is good for the customer who buys microcontrollers
that strong competition will keep development going forward. It is a
little unusual that Philips generated a new market in the 32-bit
micros but for sure there are several competitors now entering the
market, encouriging all others to become even better. 
Let' all look forward what kind of devices will be out next.

btw. I am also convinced that Philips will come out with ARM9 devices
but I doubt they will be too similar to the Atmel devices.

It's fun to see this market evolving and in the end we, the
microcontroller users will be the winners :-))

Bob

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "trick260173" <trick260173@y...> wrote:
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "tsvetanusunov" <tusunov@m...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > you may be interested in the recent rumor spead in 
> comp.embedded.arch:
> > <quote>
> > Just FYI, ATMEL has updated the Flyer
> > The new members of the AT91SAM7Sxx will have a 256KF/64KR,
> > a 128KF/32KR + EMAC. An ATMEL's guy, told me that they will add 
> also a
> > 256KF/64KR version with external bus interface like the AT91R40008.
> > I heard that the AT91SAM7S64 will be priced 3.5 USD, so I let you
> > imagine the price of the SAM7S32...
> > </quote>
> > 
> > it seems that Atmel watches Philips LPCs closely as they changed 
> > (increased) the Flash/Ram amount of the first anounced devices :)
> > 
> > also it seems that ARM7 is going to replace completely some PIC and 
> > AVRs in the next years from most of applications (unless 8bit flash 
> > price go more down under ;)
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Tsvetan
> > ---
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> > (http://www.olimex.com/pcb)
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> > Development boards for ARM, AVR, PIC, and MSP430  
> > (http://www.olimex.com/dev)
> 
> Hi tsvetan,
> 
> I will say that Atmel Watches Philips but Philips watches ATMEL too. 
> After that if you like one or the other you will tell it in the way 
> in favour of the one you like. That's normal ! But that's not just 
> like "Big brther is watching you...".
> Big Manufacturers like Philips and Atmel have Analysis report about 
> flash memory size trends for the ARM MCU Market, and then they decide 
> to create a new family. So, you will have crossed feature between 
> both manucaturer at a certain moment.
> According to me, you will see New Philips Standard ARM Products based 
> on ARM920T and ARM926EJS core, like ATMEL Family has already now.
> 
> Bye.