My opinion.

Chen Xiao Fan wrote:

>Hi all,
>When I first tried to introduce PICs to the company 5 years ago, 
>I asked the local Microchip person to recommend a popular low cost
>MCU for me since we need to support our device up to 10 years or 
>even longer and want the potential to get lower cost in the long run.
>The particular device used was PIC16C72A since another automotive 
>electronics giant also was using it. Luckily I did not choose the 
>similar ATMEL AVR part now already obsolete. But still we can no 
>longer reduce the cost further since Microchip moves on to promote
>Flash based MCU. Even moving to Mask parts do not help since they
>are never good at mask parts.
>
>I am a bit curious what are the popular low cost MCUs used in
>the industrial application now or a few years down the road. Here
>are some wild guess. Please note that they may or may not be so 
>popular for the consumer application or hobbyists.
>
>PIC10F200/202/204/206
>  
>
becoming popular, but not very intelligent. Very cheap (< $USD .50 at 100s)

>PIC12F508/509
>  
>
Too new, no samples yet.

>PIC16F684
>  
>
obsolete.

>PIC16F628A/16F819
>  
>
OK, but PIC16F87/88 is much better, at same price.

>PIC18F1220/1320
>  
>
overpriced.


>Any comments or suggestions?
>
>Xiaofan 
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