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>> most of the small component industry It's not glamorous, but Texas Instruments still operates a pile of fabs in the US, and is well positioned for the antic
by mNovak 6y ago
>> most of the small component industry
It's not glamorous, but Texas Instruments still operates a pile of fabs in the US, and is well positioned for the anticipated IoT boom.
- lmm 6y agoAre they though? You can buy a fairly nice old-school TI microcontroller - or you can buy an ARM with enough onboard RAM to run Java, program it like you're writing a phone app, and pay a similar price. Battery consumption will be worse, but are your users going to notice?
- jononor 6y agoTI has a reasonable set of ARM microcontroller offerings in the TM4C lineup. Nothing unique but plenty workable.
- mNovak 6y ago>> Battery consumption will be worse, but are your users going to notice? If it's IOT, yes definitely. Some things you don't want to plug in every day--they have to run 10yrs on battery. TI is pretty good in that space.