ARM Drives Momentum In Microcontrollers With Keil Acquisition

"ARM Drives Momentum In Microcontrollers With Keil Acquisition"


I've never driven a momentum in anything but I'd sure like to. I've heard they go really fast.

Yeah, but their cornering performance is awful, as is the braking distance.

Apparently ARM bought Keil.

Here's a link to more information.

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/view_article.asp?article_id=9859

"Apparently ARM bought Keil."

Goodbye C51.

Also as part of ARM, we will continue to enhance and provide Keil tools for non-ARM processor-based 8/16-bit MCUs, under the Keil brand.

There is no reason for our users to worry about that. We will continue to add new upcoming 8/16-bit devices as we did in the past.

The benefit for our C51/C251/C166 users will be that they can have a smooth transition to 32-bit ARM based devices.

Reinhard Keil

"The benefit for our C51/C251/C166 users will be that they can have a smooth transition to 32-bit ARM based devices."

You mean I can get a good discount on a Keil ARM toolset...? ;-)

I note that that Keil logo has already changed colour, and "An ARM Company" has been added.
That was quick!

Shame they couldn't have sealed the Triscend deal so quickly... :-(

Heh. I hadn't noticed the logo change. Now they have to change the menu bar color to match, and so ARM teal will clash with the yellows and greens. Jon will have to completely redo the color scheme.

Maybe it'll become Prussian blue and orange.

http://www.arm.com/

Maybe Jon first needs to teach ARM how to build a website. A 2Mbyte Banner home page does not make me a happy camper.
My ISP handles most inet via carrier pigeon and pretty pictures with little or no info will not make the ARM home page marked as one of My Favorites.

"Now they have to change the menu bar color..."

Since ARM is an English company, they will also have to learn how to spell "colour" properly...! ;-)

"My ISP handles most inet via carrier pigeon..."

In accordance with the official Avian Carrier specification, I trust:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Andy;
If my ISP would follow these specs they could increase my through put considerably.

"they have to change the menu bar color (sic) to match"

Now they've done it!

The About Keil Software company info page hasn't changed yet, though...

http://www.keil.com/company/default.htm

Or the Thread List bar, or the Product Overview table, or...

All the old blues and greens and yellows and reds now clash with teal. Tsk tsk.

I wonder what the budget is for color-coordinating changes to all the websites, product literature, manuals, GUIs, letterhead, business cards...

Hello Mr. Keil and all others,

I have been discussing this news the whole day on another forum, but just wanted to check http://www.keil.com before ending the day.

I have great respect for you, but I do not think that your 8051 customers will see a happy future if they want to stick with you and 8051. Why would your new owners put any priority on serving the 8051 market? A new 8051 design is a potential lost ARM or cortex design. I understand you have to say "dont worry" to your customers, but we are worried. I of course dont know the details of the deal, but if I were ARM, I know what I would focus on. I felt it personally before with ST7 and Hiware when they were bought by Motorola. I guess it was similar for Metaware when they were bought by ARC. U.s.w.

All the best for the future with ARM. You have done a good job for the 8051/C51 world.

Best Regards

Joseph