| ??? 09/22/10 00:38 Modified: 09/22/10 01:11 Read: times |
#178642 - Probably.. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jan Waclawek said:
Valentin Angelovski said:
Not to mention when it does (eventually) become purchasable it would only then be overdue by around a decade.. Very true, Valentin, but that's not the main issue. The issue is, that Atmel suffers an 8-bit schizophrenia - they don't want to have a competition for the touted AVRs, yet the '51s still account for probably some 1/3 of their mcu revenue, which is more than could be dropped with a handwave... Jan Sure Jan, clearly they want to diversify in the market place, as do NXP, STM and now Microchip. However, in releasing the 89LP52 after the XMEGA series, one could also interpret this as Atmel conceding their standard 8-bit AVR core isn't the vastly superior alternative to the '51 they had hoped for IMHO. One thing is for certain - it's totally remarkable (30 years later in 2010) the situation where rather than disappearing*, an 8051-based derivative is still available from just about every major microcontroller supplier on the planet! Not bad for a memory-challenged, register-banked, accumulator-only pile of shi-licon ;-) Cheers, Valentin * NOTE: 'disappearing' = EOL'd and no longer available |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| AT89LP52 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: AT89LP52 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it's not quite THAT problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Probably.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| staying alive | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I'd wait for a few errata to be published | 01/01/70 00:00 |