MCS-51 and ARM only major players?

I'm new to the embedded world of development.  I've noticed two 
major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers.  The simpler (relative low 
complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based 
microcontrollers.  Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on 
the market that have multiple vendors?  The AVR looks big but it looks as 
though Atmel is the only provider.  I guess there is the x86 that Intel and 
AMD provide. 

John Moore wrote:
> I'm new to the embedded world of development.  I've noticed two 
> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers.  The simpler (relative low 
> complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based 
> microcontrollers.  Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on 
> the market that have multiple vendors?  The AVR looks big but it looks as 
> though Atmel is the only provider.  I guess there is the x86 that Intel and 
> AMD provide. 

My company is still doing a good business
selling x86 DOS controllers.  Having a simple,
cheap board with a DOS that boots in 500ms
is useful for many of our customers.

Intel and and AMD are out of the x86 embedded
market, but RDC in Taiwan makes some excellent
x86 chips.

Jim Stewart wrote:

> John Moore wrote:
> 
>> I'm new to the embedded world of development.  I've noticed two 
>> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers.  The simpler (relative 
>> low complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based 
>> microcontrollers.  Are there more than these two major 
>> microcontrollers on the market that have multiple vendors?  The AVR 
>> looks big but it looks as though Atmel is the only provider.  I guess 
>> there is the x86 that Intel and AMD provide. 
> 
> 
> My company is still doing a good business
> selling x86 DOS controllers.  Having a simple,
> cheap board with a DOS that boots in 500ms
> is useful for many of our customers.
> 
> Intel and and AMD are out of the x86 embedded
> market, but RDC in Taiwan makes some excellent
> x86 chips.

Do RDC have any plans to release a FLASH x86 variant as
a microcontroller ?

-jg

In article <139q31e3fubi927@corp.supernews.com>, John Moore 
<nospam@nodomain.com> writes
>I'm new to the embedded world of development.  I've noticed two
>major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers.  The simpler (relative low
>complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
>microcontrollers.  Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
>the market that have multiple vendors?  The AVR looks big but it looks as
>though Atmel is the only provider.  I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
>AMD provide.

X85 and AMD are not in the embedded space really.

There are all the Freescale parts
Most of the worlds telecoms runs on PowerPC chips (NOT x86-PC)

Just have a look at Renesas, Samsung, Texac, Toshiba, ST, infineon, NXP, 
National, NEC, Zilog, OKI etc etc

I think that 8051 and ARM are the two largest general purpose parts  but 
PIC's and AVR are widely used.  Some parts are less widely used but used 
in much larger numbers the NEC parts for example.

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On Jul 17, 11:33 am, "John Moore" <nos...@nodomain.com> wrote:
> I'm new to the embedded world of development.  I've noticed two
> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers.  The simpler (relative low
> complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
> microcontrollers.  Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
> the market that have multiple vendors?  The AVR looks big but it looks as
> though Atmel is the only provider.  I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
> AMD provide.


MIPS competes with ARM, ARM has most of the cellphone market, MIPS has
the routers, set top boxes, which the new ARM cortex is directly
trying to compete with