Joe said:
Is there anywhere on the net I can get the rankings for the last couple of
years?
I don't know of any. There are various charts showing past and
projected markets split up in a couple different ways (4-bit vs 8-bit
vs 16-bit vs 32-bit vs 64-bit for example, although realistically those
are largely orthogonal markets!)
And ranking the different markets will present some categorizing
problems. There are a bazillion different chips evolved from the 8051
or with 8051 cores, how do you rank those, as 8051's, or as different
products by different manufacturers? Some chips like Microchip's PIC's
are single-sourced, others are far more generic and sourced from many
different manufacturers? And do you want it by total dollar sales which
will emphasize "heavy" microcontrollers that cost a lot of money? Or by
total unit sales in which case some Chinese or Taiwanese or Korean
4-bit microcontroller that you never even knew existed will be the
clear winner?
And given all those ways of asking the question, you know that every
answer is going to choose the interpretation that the presenter makes
the most $ by presenting!
Tim.
