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There 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 m
by kjs3 9y ago
There 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.