Many semiconductor vendors including TI, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Microchip, and others play in the microcontroller market. As with nearly every semiconductor niche, microcontrollers have been getting bigger and badder for decades. In the 1970s, there were 4-bit microcontrollers for VCRs and other simple consumer electronics. There were scads of 8-bit microcontrollers, soon followed by 16-bit microcontrollers.…
Arduino has released its Open Source Report 2021 - under the slogan "Open Source is Love" - detailing its progress, including new open-source hardware boards, the Arduino IDE 2.0, an Mbed-based Arduino core for the Raspberry Pi Pico and command line tools.