Lpc2000

Richard <richard-lists@...> schrieb am Mon, 31 Oct 2005 
00:48:49 -0800:

>> Because ARM makes money on the IP.  They can price the compiler in
>> such a way that all of the competition dies.  There would be two
>> platforms - open source GNU and ARM/Keil.  At $99.95 even I would
>> buy the package!
>
> Heee heee, have you thought through this? How does it benefit ARM to kill
> off the compiler competitions?
>

I guess we'll never hear the real reason, we can only speculate:
- Getting a low-price compiler.
- Killing a major compiler supply for Infineon chips.
- Getting again a working IDE (but then, why not going for Eclipse ?)

But it is not only an compiler issue. Keil has an RTOS which is now
owned by ARM. So it is getting harder to sell an RTOS for ARM.

(In the end it would have been more reasonable for Infineon to buy Keil
as they did with Hitex before.)

-- 
42Bastian Schick