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Article: EDN's 28th annual MICROPROCESSOR/ MICROCONTROLLER DIRECTORY.(Directory)(Buyers Guide)
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- EDN
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- September 27, 2001
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"HIGHEST PERFORMANCE" is a sexy phrase, and, in the spectrum of microprocessors and microcontrollers, wider device architectures push what highest performance means on a nearly daily basis. Highest performance is not sexy because it is the lowest cost or lowest power consumption; it is sexy because, as the performance curve continues to exponentially push forward, the feasible frontier of never-before-implemented applications expands. How many designers would prefer incrementally evolving an existing design than to demonstrate their engineering brilliance with a novel approach or design implemented in the next flew killer function or application? The effects of continued ...