I commented in the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576: >People in this thread keep talkin

I commented in the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576: >People in this thread keep talking like this is the "death" of Atmel. I don't see it changing much other than being guided by Microchip management to meet higher profit margins. If you think that Atmel's compilers and IDE's are going to be dropped overnight in favor of MPLAB X and Microchip compilers, you are almost surely mistaken; there's a big gap between architectures so it would be a lot of work to get Microchip tools to support Atmel parts.