from Philips or at Cygnal - as example. They have no Erratas!
That is not correct, they do. However, the list is usually a whole lot shorter than the aTMEL LIST.

I praise chip vendors for publishing errats so we can know what to look out for and not spend time debugging something that is not our fault.

Now, my beef with Atmel re erratas: They are the slowest I have ever experienced in admitting a problem and publishing it. I once reported a problem to Atmel, was told I was off my rocker, but more than 1 YEAR later it was published in an errata.

Erik