??? 02/24/11 15:29 Read: times |
#181301 - not everyone wants the 805x to survive Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
ARM, which now owns KEIL, would probably prefer the other path. I think they're probably smarter than that: they know they can't kill the 8051, so they can, at least, make a bit of money on tools. Far more importantly, I think, it means that they have the users attention when they do want to think about going beyond the 8051. not everyone wants the 805x to survive. I think there are more who would definitely want it to survive - not necessarily in the form of actual microcontroller chips, but as a "core" I don't think there's any other standard, vendor-neutral core for building into chips that are not themselves microcontrollers...? |