In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, waltc wrote:

The problem with Parallax creating their own new low cost micro is that the field is highly competitive and filled with major league players like Atmel with their AVR series, all the ARM vendors, Freescale with their innumerable Coldfire MCU variants, Microchip with their multiple chip lines,  and then there's Zilog with its Z80 line and Sil Labs with their 8051x chips.

Worse these folks have new product lines every 18-24 months and fat advertising budgets to get the word out.

Doesn't make sense for Parallax to play in that hotly competitive field.

As far as a single chip Cog goes, it's not a good choice. Alone it doesn't compare well with ARM and the other 32bit processors out there. The Cog's strength is that there are 8 of them in a Prop and you don't need a thousand page manual to understand them.

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