Keremi expands scope
17
Aug
2015
It is a lonnng summer with most (little) activity coming from Atmel. Actually, we do have great news!
Keremi expands its scope and will track 5 more MCU companies totaling 10+ families.
Keremi
Keremi adds Infineon XMC, Nuvoton Cortex-M, Spansion FMx and Toshiba Cortex-M based MCUs to its list of channels as well as Microchip. Current companies are expanded to include ST STM8, Silicon Labs EFM8, as well as Atmel AVR32 and 8051.
Starting in September, we will provide updates on these new channels through our newsletter, stay tuned.
Atmel
Apart from rumors of acquisitions, it looks like this month, Atmel is releasing the production version of the ATSAM21L (device variant B in the Atmel jargon). The SAML21 is a 48MHz low power Cortex M0+ MCU with 32 to 256k of Flash and 6 to 40 kB of RAM. The L21 supports a touch controller and USB host.
Also note a new package for the S70 (Cortex-M7 300MHz), an LFBGA 144 for 105C.
On the price side, we had a negative color at disty on the SAM D and SAM4L families. A few brighter spots shone for the S70 and 4E albeit in the low single digit.
Freescale
Long summer for the products. Nothing to declare this month, but…
Freescale revised its price list heavily. Let’s start with the dogs: MKL03 was realigned down 20 to 25%, while the MLK33 fared as low as -30%. There were also some hot selling cakes like the MKL14/15 shooting up 15 to 55%.
NXP
NXP was very quiet this month on the product front following the acquisition of Freescale.
Pricewise, there was no significant change.
Renesas
Renesas released 17 variants of the Rl78/G13 with new packages.
The news is the RL78/G1D with Bluetooth Low Energy, 128 to 256kB Flash in a WQFN package. The device embeds a 2.4 GHz RF that supports BLE 4.1 in single mode.
There was no price change.
SiliconLabs
Ah, no product change this month for Silicon Labs.
The not so Happy Gecko took a little price hit this month with most devices below -5% and a few around +1%.
ST Microelectronics
Light changes at ST this month with merely tape and reel and increased temp versions of existing products.
The L476 and L486 got new packages.
No significant price changes.
Texas Instruments
Very quiet at TI this month. The MSP432 is now in production.
No price changes this month for TI beyond a few parts at disty.
The clash of the CoreMark Titans
19
Jul
2015
With ST and TI getting quiet this month, Reneasas is taking center stage with a new family of devices tackling heavy filtering applications. With 4.16 CoreMark/MHz the new RX231 is getting close to the 5 CoreMark/Mhz of the Cortex-M7 based STM32F756 and past the Microchip PIC32. Will Freescale and Atmel get into the clash of the titans?
This month, nothing fancy, we just have a new VFBGA package option for the SAMS70N19A.
After the nice findings (RCP package technology) of last month, we have 14 new parts split in 2 groups.
The MKV for Motor Control & Power Conversion, is getting new parts in the low end (Cortex-M0+ based). The initial part numbers were 16 and 32 kB of Flash, now we are seeing 12 additional parts with 64 and 128 kB.
Also, the MKM34 is getting more Flash going from 128 to 256 kB.
Nice price changes this month with MK22 hit by -5 to -30% decline. A few part numbers increased, MK24FN1M and MKM34.
NXP was very quiet this month on the product front following the acquisition of Freescale.
Pricewise, there was no significant change.
Renesas announced the new RX231 focused on power efficiency and filtering to serve the industrial sensor and healthcare markets. The 90 new devices (P/N R5F5231***) embed the latest RXv2 core capable of a whooping 4.16 CoreMark/MHz. The family reaches a low 0.8uA in standby mode with SRAM and register retention while it consumes 120uA/MHz with the CPU is active. The lineup ranges from 48 to 100 pins and 128 to 512 kB of Flash. Samples are available now. Pricing starts at $2.05/10ku for the R52315ADFL 128 kB Flash / 32 kB RAM, LQFP48.
The RL78 for its part has been cut by 319 parts, mostly the low end RL78: R5F100 (-88 parts to 241), R5F101 (-112 to 129), 102 (-13 to 26) and 103 (-13 to 13) and 104 (-93 to 248).
There was no price change.
Ah, no product change this month for Silicon Labs.
No price changes.
Light changes at ST this month with merely tape and reel and increased temp versions of existing products. C’est la vie.
ST price changes were focused on STM32F100C8T7 and STM32F407ZGT7 (+10%) while a handfull of STM32F4 part numbers went down -7 to -24%.
Very quiet at TI this month. Only 3 products removed: MSP430F413/5/7CY
No price changes this month for TI .
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