Semiconductor Products Insight

Semiconductor Products Insight

Pausing after the frenesy

01

May

2023

This month saw a pause in the frenesy of the start of the year when ST overhauled its MUCs portfolio by removing the STM8 and Texas Instruments announced a new portfolio of very low cost products based on the Cortex-M0+, the MSPM0.


Infineon
No change.
Microchip
This month, Microchip added 75 parts to the DSPIC33CK group as well as to the PIC16F1717x group.
The latter is focused on raw sensor applications requiring signal gain or filtering. It offers an op-amp and the 12-bit differential ADC with computation in low pin count packages.
Nordic
No change.
Nuvoton
In the M254/M256/M258 Low Power LCD Series, Nuvoton added the M254QE3AE, M256QE3AE, M258QE3AE, LQFP80 variants of existing parts.
NXP
NXP added a couple of dual Cortex-A35+Cortex-M4 for the automotive market.
Renesas
In the RL78 group, Renesas obsoleted around 150 part numbers in the F12 and L12 families while adding 90 variants to the G11 (Low Power, Low Pin Count Microcontrollers for General Purpose Applications) and F14 (Low Consumption Current for Automotive Applications).
SiliconLabs
SiLabs launched the EFM8BB50 as part of the 5 Volt Busy Bee family, a general-purpose line of 8051-based MCUs.
ST Microelectronics
ST has paused this month after a frenetic beginning of the year when it overhauled its STM porfolio of MCUs with the retirement (NRND) of virtually all of its STM8 parts. This is the result of the STM32C0 announcement a couple of months ago, of their lowest cost 32 MCU that cannibalized the STM8. This is a bold move that allows customers to upgrade easily to a slew of options in the STM32 portfolio.
Texas Instruments
TI added a few variants of the C2000.
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