As you may recall, in my previous column, I started to consider why the 30-year-old eight-bit 8051 microcontroller remains a valuable player in the embedded systems game. The days, months, and years ...

Embedded World — Nuremburg, Germany -- February 23, 2015 -- A new 16-bit 80251 microcontroller IP core shipping now from CAST, Inc. runs 69.7 times faster than the original 8051 chip, making it the ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has shipped its 500 Millionth AVR(R) Flash Microcontroller. Atmel introduced the AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Architecture in 1997. Over the ...