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Only $0.13 for 2000+ ATTINY25-20SU according to http://www.hqchip.com/search/ATTINY.html



A rather small team of 10 people (with only 4-5 devs) will cost 10K per week at some generic corporation. Let's say your project takes 12 months to make on a beefy processor ($2 per unit) and 15 months on a cheap processor ($1 per unit). That extra dev time to deal with those issues directly costs 120K.

That automatically means you have to be shipping at least 120K units just to break even with those costs. But you are also getting to market 3 months later which itself has huge business costs which means you probably need to be shipping 200K or more units. That's a pretty big number for a lot of embedded device designers.

If you double your chip constraint from $0.13 to $0.26, then that same team must now ship a million devices to break even.


Um, look that up on findchips/octopart/etc.

It's a buck and change on those--same as ARM Cortex M series.




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