Why should microcontroller (MCU) “bit size” matter to a system designer? After all, developers are looking for an MCU that does the job for a particular application at a reasonable price. Next on the ...

Chandler, Ariz. — Microchip Technology announced eight members of the PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, which extend the line into smaller 28- and 44-pin packages with 16 to 64 Kbytes of Flash ...

Increasing competition from lower cost 32-bit microcontrollers has prompted suppliers to reposition their workhorse 16-bit MCUs. Renesas Technology is one of a number of MCU suppliers looking at ways ...

The 16-bit microcontroller was in danger of becoming the forgotten technology of the Internet revolution. Too expensive to compete with low cost 8-bit micros and lacking the performance and power ...

Microchip’s dsPIC and PIC24 line of 16-bit microcontrollers has become every popular even as some concentrate on 8- and 32-bit product lines. Well, there are plenty of applications where 16-bit ...

Users of portable devices could soon be worrying less about recharging their batteries. NEC Electronics America Inc. Monday announced a line of 16-bit “all flash” microcontroller units (MCU), meant ...

SAN FRANCISCO & CAMAS, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002-- Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) today adds to its BlueStreak family of microcontrollers (MCUs) a highly integrated line ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The new Microcontroller Market Research from Technavio indicates Negative and Inferior growth in the short term as the business impact of COVID-19 spreads. "One of the primary ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, California, April 20, 2010 NXP Semiconductors today announced sampling of the world’s smallest general-market 32-bit microcontroller, the LPC1102, based on the ...