Yeah, building on a literally 10+-year-old chip feels weird coming in from the computer industry. But if its _still_ reasonably popular after this long, I think

Yeah, building on a literally 10+-year-old chip feels weird coming in from the computer industry. But if its _still_ reasonably popular after this long, I think its clearly got some long-term legs to stand on. I think the main advantage, for my hobbyist self at least, is the 0.80mm pitch BGA which is doable on OSHPark. TI's more recent AM625 is 0.50mm pitch, which is too small for OSHPark 5mil trace/space, lol. Perhaps a bad reason to a professional but... I'm filtering out for chips that I can actually affordably make a PCB for on a hobbyist scale.