Mitsubishi Electric Boosts 16-Bit Micro-controller Line-Up

Staff -- Semiconductor International, 7/1/1998

Mitsubishi Electric Boosts 16-Bit Micro-controller Line-Up

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) is strengthening its 16-bit M16C microcontroller family, with the goal of boosting sales to 40 billion yen ($347 million) by the year 2000.

The firm will release M16C/60 Series microcontrollers with DINOR structures and internal 256/128 Kbyte flash memory. The low-end product group will include the M16C/20 Series of low-pincount chips, successors to the firm's prior 8-bit designs. The high-end M16C/80 Series mounts a powerful 32-bit processing core, answering market demands for expanded addressable memory space. ASSP products will be released as system solutions for specific sectors, and the design infrastructure is being upgraded for M16C/ASIC custom microcontrollers with embedded user logic.

Total monthly production for the entire series is expected to reach 6 million chips by the year 2000.