Towards the end of AVR ?

I dont think that anyone will buy anything with a lot of money just to destroy it ...


and to your second question: have you ever programmed both types of controllers in their machine language?

We made some simple projects on a PIC12C508 - it has 3 levels of stack, automatically pushing/poping the return adress, and one separate Flag register for INTs, also automatic handled on INT / RETI nothing else.
Try to do something like nested procedure calls or interrupts on such a system.

Hi Toronado,

yes, there is a big rumor in the WEB.
I think it makes no sense killing the Atmel devices to remove a strong
competitor.
Look at the standard PICs, brainless devices. And their 32 bit are MIPS types.
Not really a competition to the ARMs.
I think they need good 8bits (AVR) and good 32bits (ARM) from Atmel.

rolf