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Re:What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VS... by userbinator on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:23AM (#44497063)
Microchip seems to be reasonably good at opening stuff up that it's bought from other companies; various Atmel security ICs which were previously very secretive now have full datasheets freely downloadable from their site.
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Re:What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VS... by azonenberg on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:05AM (#44500103)
Yes, Vitesse had been on my "naughty list" of companies that were permanently banned from getting a design win from me because of refusing to share any docs or sell parts at distributors or other engineer-hostile practices popular with the likes of Marvell and Broadcom.

After MCHP bought them and opened up (what I thought was) the full datasheet I gave them a second chance. Seems they still held some back.

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