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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
>> Do you think TI cares much about the MSP430 line any more
> I hope they still care and make new devices...
> Too bad they don't have FRAM Dip devices, I would buy some.

Yes, that would be great.  Besides FRAM, they also have some 430's that
can run as low as 1 volt or so, i.e. you can run them on a penlight cell
with no voltage boost.  I don't know of any ARM stuff with these
features.  Also I think recent 430s have lower static power consumption
than most of the ARMs out there, though ARM is now ahead in performance
per watt with the cpu busy.  Static power is important if the device is
usually idle, as many are.