Usually Keil came up all three or four months with
8051 upgrades. Especially serving new chips.

For 2005 there was no significant update- but quite a bit
of new 8051 micros. The Accutron support ("Spear") by Keil
is a pain in the neck.

My guess: ARM is just taking a competitor out of business-
and earns with it the 8051- cake!
If the 8051 family looses Keil as tool and a nice offering
(cause the customer data are now ownded by ARM) to switch
to ARM (with also quite a variety of suppliers) will have
quite an impact.
Have a close look to the 8051 "big boys":
They are also offering ARM micros!
You see the story? Keil is just the pawn in this game ;o))

Another example: AD´s 7000 family is far behind schedule.
In the very beginning they got along with the Keil- debugging
tool- a nice little JTAG box.
But now they are quite open to various other companies (Hitex, IAR).

Times are changing and a strong arm is shaking the market.

wolf