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From: -jg on 2 Mar 2010 17:39 On Mar 3, 1:59 am, "tomumctoys" <tomumct...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > ..I am told that there will be a > new forum that gives a place for .. cool things with > Zilog products Could "cool things with Zilog products" possibly mean NEW products ? I did see the IXYS logo is now on the website, so someone there still has a pulse (at least in marketing) ;) -jg
From: Peter Seldon on 2 Mar 2010 18:19 > "-jg" wrote... > On Mar 3, 1:59 am, "tomumctoys" wrote: > > > > ..I am told that there will be a > > new forum that gives a place for .. cool things with > > Zilog products > > Could "cool things with Zilog products" possibly mean > NEW products ? > How could they do that when to save money Billerbeck fired every single chip design engineer 3 years ago? It's been, what, 4 years since Zilog designed a new mcu? Thier website news archive doesn't even go back that far!
From: -jg on 3 Mar 2010 06:07 On Feb 27, 5:19 pm, -jg <jim.granvi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, as an example, Rabbit have spun 3 variants of their core, whilst > Zilog only managed a single bug-fix pass of their Z80Acclaim. > Speaking of Rabbit, this is topical - and a reflection of where Zilog could have been now... http://www.digi.com/news/pressrelease.jsp?prid=683 200 MHz 1 MB internal DRAM and 32K battery backable SRAM up to 6 serial ports (4 as SPI) On-board 802.11 a/b/g and 10/100 Ethernet 64 I/O and USB 2.0 full speed (host) 12-bit A/D converter samples up to 1Megasamples/s Ideal for industrial motor control Integrated hardware and software environment Easily add an HMI as well as CANbus protocol support with the on- board FIMs only minus, is it's 292-ball BGA. No price ? -jg
From: rickman on 3 Mar 2010 09:27 On Mar 3, 3:46 am, Tim Watts <t...(a)dionic.net> wrote: > Peter Seldon <peter373...(a)yahoo.com> > wibbled on Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:19 > > > > >> "-jg" wrote... > >> On Mar 3, 1:59 am, "tomumctoys" wrote: > > >> > ..I am told that there will be a > >> > new forum that gives a place for .. cool things with > >> > Zilog products > > >> Could "cool things with Zilog products" possibly mean > >> NEW products ? > > > How could they do that when to save money Billerbeck fired every single > > chip design engineer 3 years ago? > > What demons of stupidity possessed him to think that was a good idea? Not > that I haven't seen exactly the same behaviour in other companies... > > Scott Adams will never run out of material. Maybe at the time the choices were to chew off your ARM (pun intended) or to die in the trap? Rick
From: Peter Seldon on 3 Mar 2010 13:05
> "rickman" wrote... > On Mar 3, 3:46 am, Tim Watts wrote: > > Peter Seldon wibbled on Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:19 > > > > > > > > >> "-jg" wrote... > > >> On Mar 3, 1:59 am, "tomumctoys" wrote: > > > > >> > ..I am told that there will be a > > >> > new forum that gives a place for .. cool things with > > >> > Zilog products > > > > >> Could "cool things with Zilog products" possibly mean > > >> NEW products ? > > > > > How could they do that when to save money Billerbeck fired every single > > > chip design engineer 3 years ago? > > > > What demons of stupidity possessed him to think that was a good idea? Not > > that I haven't seen exactly the same behaviour in other companies... > > > > Scott Adams will never run out of material. > > Maybe at the time the choices were to chew off your ARM (pun intended) > or to die in the trap? > > Rick Or maybe Billerbeck's intention was to tank the stock price and crash the company so he could sell it in an inside deal to IXYS at a pathetically low price while he accepts money under the table? BTW, Rick - usenet is text-only. |