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Very true. I'm not in SiFive's target market. Though I do use M0 and M4 cores fairly frequently. But I'm not a direct customer of ARM, though. I think that'

Very true. I'm not in SiFive's target market. Though I do use M0 and M4 cores fairly frequently. But I'm not a direct customer of ARM, though. I think that's what you were implying. I think part of what I'm getting at is it's TOUGH to get people to adopt new IP. And it's TOUGH to be all things to all people so you can compete in the low end against M0s and MSP430s, in the mid range against A77s and in the high end against i9's. That being said, if SiFive fabbed a catalog part with one or two E20s at a reasonable cost, I have an immediate need of 200 of them. I only wish there were another 500 of me with a similar need so there was a chance we could get it fabbed at a decent price.

brucehoult 3y ago
> if SiFive fabbed a catalog part with one or two E20s at a reasonable cost Why would they do that? That's not the business SiFive is in. Arm doesn't do that -- they leave that to people such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the RP2040. Perhaps (if you insist on a SiFive core) you could look at something like the BL602? $0.99 here. https://pine64.com/product/pineseed-bl602-wifi-ble5-soc/ https://pine64.com/product/pineseed-bl602-wifi-ble5-soc/ If you're willing to use non-SiFive cores (and why not), the CH32V003 is pretty awesome for $0.10 (8 pin) to $0.14 (20 pin), assuming 2K RAM and 16K flash is enough for your purposes. But I don't know what is "a decent price" for you.