On 23 Mar 2010 at 16:28, Dave McGuire wrote:
For an awful
lot of applications you don't need more power than an
old 8 bit processor IMHO.
Or a NEW 8-bit processor, for that matter.
...and I DO like new processors. But I wonder if 8-bit uC's are
long for this world, at least in the commercial area. The Cortex M0
ARM CPUs appear to be coming on pretty strong. Why buy 8 bits when
you can get 32 for the same price in an upward-compatible package?
--Chuck