Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Thornton" <tim.thornton@a...> 
wrote:
> Hello Karl
> 
> If that's true, the grape vine is better informed than I am! 
>Abandoning > the ARM ISA is not something I'm aware of. Motorola and 
>Siemens span out  their semiconductor business; they have other 
>business in their  portfolio. ARM is only semiconductor, so it would 
>not be possible for us  to spin that business out.

One canot rely on the grape vine obvioulsy, but odd things seams
tho have hapend, a colleague had just read about the ARM 
name "abandonment" in one large electronics industry paper!!
 
> We are certainly not abandoning the ARM brand name. 

That seams sound, but it seams that something has not
been right in marketing or in the contact with the
industry journalists or simply the journalists
goofed again!!   

>The proper title of
>the new processor is the ARM Cortex-M3. I'm not in marketing, but I
>believe the decision to name the processor family was to prevent
>confusion between core names and architectures. The ARM V7 
>architecture
>sounds too much like ARM7!

Well , what about ARM C7! 
Anyhow, its a bit silly this naming thing of products,
does it in reality sell less or more whatever the 
name are! Would Intel had sold less or more Pentium
if the name had been Sexium, or Septium?

>Speaking of Intel, I would argue a better
>comparison is their change from the 80486 to
>Pentium than from Intel to Bananas Inc.

As long as the grape grape vine was talking about
product name, yes i agree, but the g-vine was also
about change of company name too!

I still like Bananas Inc instead if Intel! :-)

Reg
KD