Interesting. Our experience is the opposite. The only CPU supplier we've ever
had problems with was the Intel 386EX, which is big, has its own fabs, and
extremely well known. They even closed the fab at a time it was still making
money, but wanted to retool and create space for newer product lines capable of
making them even more money.
Personally, we pay little attention to company size or how well-known/how much
marketing they do. We do recognize a good chip when we see it and have faith
that good chips are hard for a small company to have and still fail. Minimum
quantities/price increases are always a risk, but thats where it helps to have
some buying power and some visibility with your manufacturers/distributors
(which BTW is easier if its a smaller company).
//Jesse Off
--- In "Nick" <> wrote:
>
> Sometimes I wonder about availbility of chips from lesser known fabless
> crowds. Happened to us once, spend months designing a product based on this
> new super chip from a small company. They got bought out and then wouldn't
> talk to us unless we wanted to buy 50K at a time ...
> Fond memories ... NOT
>
> nic
>
>
>
>
> --- In Matthieu Crapet <mcrapet@> wrote:
> >
> > Just noticed the update off the website:
> >
> > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7500
> > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-pictures.php?product=TS-7500
> >
> > Econa CNS2132 (ARM9 @ 250MHz)
> >
> > http://www.cavium.com/ECONA_CNS2XXX.html
> >
> > It's not in the mainline kernel. But BSP available.
> >
> > With a second ethernet it could be a nice router/gateway..
> >
> > Some enclosure planned ?
> >
>
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