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Oh, absolutely. The most familiar to software engineers is the AVR used in Arduino but there are so many 8 Bit micros out there (literally 10's of thousands dif
by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Oh, absolutely. The most familiar to software engineers is the AVR used in Arduino but there are so many 8 Bit micros out there (literally 10's of thousands different device) and new ones are coming out every month. So plenty of new development going on.
- kjs3 9y agoThere are a couple of orders of magnitudes more Intel 8051 derivatives out there than there will ever be AVRs, and they still have yearly sales in the 100s of millions.
- jononor 9y agoAnd how many percent of this is for new development?
- kjs3 9y agoThese sorts of numbers are maddeningly hard to pin down without paying big $$$ to a market research firm. Anecdotally, there's 20 or so different companies currently making 8051 variants, the ecosystem (compilers, etc) is solid, and 8051s are showing up in places like standardized tire pressure monitors (mandated in 2007) and things like the TI CC3000 bluetooth stack. So I think it's safe to say there's a healthy amount of new development going on.