??? 08/29/11 11:18 Read: times |
#183515 - Was it AVR who made low-quantity available? Or just spin-off Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Neil said:
IF they're smart, maybe they can learn something from their AVR division, which seems to have done pretty well out of being hobbyist-friendly - ie, they'll make them easily available in small quantities...
Isn't a lot of that low-quantity availability third-party companies who stock AVR chips for low-quantity sales? I feel the major smart thing Atmel did was their AVR ISP dongle which got people interested in the AVR line. Especially since a number of sites designed printer-port-driven programmers based on the reverse-engineering of the AVR ISP dongle. With almost for-free programming hardware, it was meaningful for hobby-oriented companies to start selling AVR chips. |