Seems like Microchip has lost interest in having any customers. They killed off their parametric search function.
FOR EVERY PRODUCT IN THE ENTIRE COMPANY.
Yes this is a rage post.
Microchip's website has always been... dubious. It always has loaded very very slowly, it always had a strange, mazelike heirarchy of webpages. Overall it has always seemed very poorly administrated.
BUT - it was always possible to search through their products to find what you want.
No more.
I work in a university lab and often use PICs to build little pieces of hardware for use in experiments. This often means I need a particular arrangement of peripherals that only a few PICs can support. Now that the parametric search is gone, I won't be able to use PICs anymore. I'm forced to switch to another company, probably some sort of ARM chips. And once I put in the effort to switch, I won't ever come back.
I filed support tickets with Microchip over a month ago over this issue and got no response. Radio silence.
Strange how a billion dollar company with so many geniuses employed can still make such a fundamental, business-ruining mistake. Like even my local restaurants have good, functional websites. Yet Microchip, a leading electronics company seems incapable of the same.
Don't point me towards MAPS. It is buggy, slow, out of date, and overall useless. It is not a viable search function.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I've been fuming about this for a while now. Have a nice day.