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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> Why would you think TI didn't care about the MSP430?  They sell a
> whole bunch of them and likely there is no ARM that will fill exactly
> the niche of some of the MSPs when you consider all the factors.

Well they are even giving the MSP designation to ARM cpus now (MSP432 is
based on Cortex M4).  Of course they'll keep shipping existing 430
models as long as people keep buying them, so my question is more about
whether there will keep being new designs.  I do get the impression that
there aren't that many new design wins for the 430.  There is apparently
some process limitation that prevents them from making ARMs with FRAM
but maybe they'll get around that somehow.

> Otherwise it is just price for the big jobs.  I don't think the MSP430
> looses on price a lot and can often fit niches that other MCU lines
> don't necessarily fit.

Well I mentioned a few niches, but as you say, they are niches.  I do
think designers care about future compatibility and capabilities as well
as the short-term price, and I dunno that the 430's are really cheaper
than ARMs for comparable parts, especially at the higher end.

I'm also awed by the low price of some of the Espressif wifi parts
(ESP8266 and so on).  They use a MIPS-inspired 32-bit instruction set
roughly comparable to a Cortex M3, not binary compatible but there's a
GCC toolchain for it.  I don't think they have any process advantages or
anything like that, so all I can think of is that they're lowering costs
by not having to pay ARM royalties.

Take a look at wemos.cc sometime -- their D1 wifi board is a favorite in
some circles around here.  It's crazy cheap, quite powerful, and runs
Lua (NodeMCU) and Micropython as well as the usual C stuff.

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new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 09:45 -0700
  Re: new embedded forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-02 13:01 -0500
    Re: new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 11:08 -0700
      Re: new embedded forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-02 13:48 -0500
  Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-11 23:45 -0700
    Re: new embedded forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-12 09:51 -0500
      Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-12 13:15 -0700
        Re: new embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-09-12 22:46 +0200
          Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-12 14:30 -0700
        Re: new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 01:11 -0700
          Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-13 01:32 -0700
            Re: new embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-09-13 11:13 +0200
              Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-13 10:25 -0700
                Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 13:55 -0400
            Re: new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 02:37 -0700
    Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-12 21:39 -0400
      Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-12 18:57 -0700
        Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-12 22:13 -0400
          Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-12 19:26 -0700
            Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 13:46 -0400
              Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-13 15:59 -0700
                Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 19:06 -0400
                Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-30 17:37 -0700
                Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 10:41 -0400
                Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-03 13:21 -0700
                Re: new embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-30 17:50 -0700
              Re: new embedded forth Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-09-14 07:45 +0200
                Re: new embedded forth Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2016-09-30 15:32 +0200
      Re: new embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-09-13 11:14 +0200
  Re: new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 04:44 -0700
    Re: new embedded forth JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2016-10-07 04:59 -0700
      Re: new embedded forth Jean-Michel Thoorens <jeanmichel.thoorens@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 05:45 -0700
        Re: new embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 10:57 -0400
          Re: new embedded forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-08 10:06 -0500
          Re: new embedded forth JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2016-10-08 08:16 -0700
    Re: new embedded forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-07 12:25 -0500

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