Enhanced Flash

[leonel]

Hi...
Does anybody can tell me what´s the difference between Enhanced Flash and Flash Micro?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

It's probably more 'marketing speak' than anything tangible?.

 

[geko]

At least as far as Microchip are concerned the difference is given here

**broken link removed**

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

At least as far as Microchip are concerned the difference is given here

**broken link removed**

Right, so it's the difference between EEPROM and real FLASH!

 

[Pommie]

When did they change the name to "Enchanced" (from the link above)

Mike.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

When did they change the name to "Enchanced" (from the link above)

No idea, I hadn't noticed they had!.

But it's all just advertising rubbish anyway.

Originally MicroChip listed their products honestly, as EEPROM, then Atmel started advertising their EEPROM processors as FLASH - because it became the buzzword of the time. MicroChip eventually did the same, and relabelled their EEPROM processors as FLASH.

After a fair while of this both Atmel and MicroChip did start producing actual FLASH devices - although some of the MicroChip ones (even new ones) were still EEPROM - I can't comment on the Atmel ones.

Presumably the MicroChip marketing boys have been busy again?, and 'reinvented' their FLASH devices as 'Enhanced FLASH'.

 

[Hero999]

Perhaps someone should reported them to the advertising standards agency.

I've heard a similar story about Sky broadband advertising the bandwidth as just 16MB, what 16 Mega bytes/bits per second/day month/year? 16MB on it's own is meaningless.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Perhaps someone should reported them to the advertising standards agency.

Not much point, they are very similar things anyway, and it's doubtful that they could do anything.