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This is surprising news to me. An analog with the microprocessor market would be Intel buying AMD! I love Microchip's application notes. My first controller wa

This is surprising news to me. An analog with the microprocessor market would be Intel buying AMD! I love Microchip's application notes. My first controller was a PIC16F877A and apart from the architecture quirks (and mediocre C compiler support) it is a good processor for beginners. In that sense, this acquisition nicely complements MT's own strengths. I'm still not sure how I feel about the monopolization of the uC though.

throwaway7767 11y ago
I tried both PIC and AVR when first getting into embedded development. I very quickly grew a strong distaste for the PIC instruction set (their docs were admittedly very nice). AVR was just so clean by comparison. It's a sad day, microchip really needed a good competitor.
- Zardoz84 11y ago
  The whole swarm of cheap ARM micros that are now around or below the 1$ per chip, plus with free and sane C compiler ?