Is Zilog still in business?
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From: Mel on 27 Feb 2010 12:58 Chris H wrote: > The premise is the top dogs are not the top because they are good but > that they made fewer obvious mistakes. That reminds me of a Harold Geneen (one-time boss of ITT) quote that I read once and haven't been able to track down. Mel.
From: tomumctoys on 2 Mar 2010 07:59 >Is ZILOG still in business? they don't answer tech support phone calls or return emails. >My rep from Future Electronics distributor says "not recommended" and do not use them > Yes Zilog is very much still in business and I am told that there will be a new forum that gives a place for complaints, questions and cool things with Zilog products released in the next week or two. I understand that they were purchased by IXYS, which should help them grow. I don't know why your Future rep is saying "not recommended", especially since if you look at their FTM in February, there is a component focus on Zilog products. --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.EmbeddedRelated.com
From: Jim Stewart on 2 Mar 2010 13:21 tomumctoys wrote: >> Is ZILOG still in business? they don't answer tech support phone calls or > return emails. >> My rep from Future Electronics distributor says "not recommended" and do > not use them > > Yes Zilog is very much still in business and I am told that there will be a > new forum that gives a place for complaints, questions <smartass> Like when the Z800 will be released </smartass>
From: AZ Nomad on 2 Mar 2010 13:37 On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:21:28 -0800, Jim Stewart <jstewart(a)jkmicro.com> wrote: >tomumctoys wrote: >>> Is ZILOG still in business? they don't answer tech support phone calls or >> return emails. >>> My rep from Future Electronics distributor says "not recommended" and do >> not use them >> >> Yes Zilog is very much still in business and I am told that there will be a >> new forum that gives a place for complaints, questions ><smartass> Like when the Z800 will be released </smartass> Hey, it's not easy designing a 100e6 transistor quad core 64 bit processor without using any microcode.
From: Peter Seldon on 2 Mar 2010 14:26
> Yes Zilog is very much still in business and I am told that there will be a > new forum that gives a place for complaints, questions and cool things with > Zilog products released in the next week or two. yeah, right. And monkeys will fly out of my butt > I understand that they > were purchased by IXYS, which should help them grow. Unless IXYS plans to just sell off the patents? > I don't know why your Future rep is saying "not recommended", especially > since if you look at their FTM in February, there is a component focus on > Zilog products. Don't be so totally naiive. Are you new to this business or what??????? In distribution, what corporate says and what sales actually sell are usually two completely different things. That's why my Futre rep steers me towards other mcu vendors. A distributor rep isn't going to sell a product that he CAN'T get sales support for, not when he has a full line card that includes Freescale, Microchip, NEC, NXP, ST Micro, and Cypress Freescale, Microchip, each have huge direct sales networks of about 35 people for USA/Canada. Zilog hasn't answer the phone in a year and is down to 5 direct salesmen for all of US and Canada. That's one saleman for every ten states. And IXYS salesmen are completely untrained in mcus. Don't expect a salesman that only knows how to sell MOSFET drivers to talk to you about mcus and DMA transfer speeds. |