Has Microchip reached #1 sales at 8 bit uC's?

[Z80]

Someone told me that recently, is it true? And, BTW, where can you get centralized sales figures for the major companies?

 

[ntfreak]

I was on some ST training a week or so ago.
Sales of 8/16/32bit micros were mentioned as follows.
1.Hitachi
2.Microchip
3.ST
I can't remember any more than that.

Regards
NTFreak

 

[mmfuria]

Ok, but that does not mean that PIC is the most pópular/used uC among all. Other lines of uC, like 8051 has more than 50 sources. You'd have to sum all to know how much 8051 variants are used

MM.

 

[wh]

But is Hitachi produce 8-bit controller?