Microchip makes offer to buy Atmel

[falingtrea]

Microchip just made an offer to buy out Atmel's stock and sell parts of the company to On Semi.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081002/microchip_technology_acquisition.html?.v=1

DO I see an AVR-BASIC on the horizon?? :rolleyes:

[rmteo]

Very interesting development. There are at least 2 dialects of BASIC available for AVR.