> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Xiaofan Chen
> Sent: 02 March 2010 01:37
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [EE] Low cost 32bit MCU, how low is low
> 
> http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=481688
> 
> NXP is now selling 32bit MCU at really low cost,
> especially the Cortex M0. The lower end Cortex M3 compete
> well with high end 8-bit MCUs. Now the Cortex M0 parts
> seem to beat PIC18 handsomely with price and features.
> 
> Even the price at qty of 1 is really low compared to PIC18F.
> http://www.mouser.com/Semiconductors/Microcontrollers-
> Microprocessors/Microcontrollers-MCU/_/N-
> 6hpeg?Keyword=lpc11&FS=True&Ns=Pricing|0
> http://www.mouser.com/Semiconductors/Microcontrollers-
> Microprocessors/Microcontrollers-MCU/_/N-
> 6hpeg?Keyword=pic18F&FS=True&Ns=Pricing|0

In terms of performance/$ PICs haven't made much sense for quite a long
time IMO.  What they do offer that very few other vendors do is parts in
hobby friendly packages and very low pin count parts.

FWIW we had the TI/Luminary guys in recently and they are developing
some very exciting parts e.g. M3 with floating point unit, and purely
FRAM based parts.  They also have sub $1 parts coming soon.  They also
have some of the fastest flash memory around, meaning full speed with no
wait states unlike the STM32 etc.

Regards

Mike

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