[En-Nut-Discussion] Re: [En-Nut-Announce] Version 3.4.2 Available

[Jesper Hansen]

> >Good to meet an "OKI Promoter". My concerns about OKI
> >are, that they produce chips for their printers, using
> >the open market as a second channel only. Almost everyone
> >I talked to confirmed this view.
> >
> >No doubt, in the market Ethernut is irrelevant. But
> >as long as some major players use the same chips, we
> >are quite safe.
> 
> I have never heard about OKI designing the ARM chips primarily for their 
> printers.  They have been making printers for a long time and they only 
> started making ARM chips since last summer.  Besides, if you consider the 
> features the chips have, most of them would not be useful in a 
> printer.  Why would you need ADC or PWM in a printer?  Where did you hear 
> this?
> 
> I am designing boards that I will be selling in thousands per year 
> (hopefully).  If my disti partners are setting me up for a fall, they will 
> bear part of the blow when I stop ordering from them all together.
> 
> Whatever the source of this rumor, I expect it is way overblown.  OKI is 
> trying to attract business, not ruin it.
> 
> I just checked and there are hundreds of parts in stock at Nuhorizons right 
> now.


OKI has been using the ARM core since 1995 for their specific printer chips. 
As Harald mention, some of these chips were also available to the open market.
I looked at OKI some years ago, but the chips were too restricted.

Today, it's definitely a different story. OKI seems to have a large selection of 
general purpose CPU's, which a visit to www.okisemi.com will show.

/Jesper
www.yampp.com