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Technology Stocks : PMC-Sierra (PMCS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trader Dave who wrote (1976)	7/21/1998 9:30:00 AM
From: ricky	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3818

Trader Dave, <There's one thing fairly important missing from the thread discussion. PMCS doesn't sell commodity components anymore> I agree. PMCS is not (and never has been) a commodity type semi company. <PMCS is really a semiconductor software company. Their customers design their systems around PMCS components. Those design wins last for the lifetime of the product.> Most of the components that PMCS designs are register based. A reset configures the device in a default state. There is a uP interface to the address/data and control lines which allow the registers to be individually addressed and programmed. A firmware update to the processor can be made to change the programming of these devices. A competitors product in some cases can be substituted for a PMCS device with a simple firmware update. There is no reason to do this unless their is an advantage to using a competitors product such as pricing or performance. Ricky