I did notice the Atmel website had the Microchip logo. I thought that a bit odd.
From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 12:19 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Raspberrry pi tease In case you missed it, microchip bought atmel a few months back, so either way you'd going to be using a microchip product. I haven't heard any details on what the long term prognosis of the avr parts are. If it's like previous acquisitions, they'll figure out what they can build in their own fabs and then weed out any low volume products which they have to get manufactured by a third party. Not sure about long term R&D though.... On May 1, 2016 12:08 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: So, I thought I would use the Raspberry PI zero as the MCU for a new project. Sounds ideal.... until you try to get one of the freaking things.... then it becomes very obvious that basing any product on this device would be fatal when it comes time to actually acquire any quantity of the devices.... Arrgh... Now I am back to the eternal AVR vs PIC war. I don’t want to find all my AVR tools and figure out which ones still work. I want linux....
