Do you see any future to the 8-bit MCU's?

From: Antoni Lacasta i Sullà <antoni.lacasta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:30:54 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

During the latest months I have been receiving offers for 32-bit MCU's, mostly based on ARM-Cortex CPU's, at prices I'm currently paying for 8-bit devices, or even cheaper! This has brought me to benchmark them with the MCU independent part of my C++ code and surprisingly the results are quite similar.

Same price, same flash consumption ... what do yo think? Is this the end of the 8-bit's? I guess it is.

Regards,
Toni.
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