ST steals the show, SiLabs preparing for a new portfolio?
24
Jul
2014
ST is stealing the show again this month with a slew of new products from the 1.8V F0x8 to the higher end F411 with batch acquisition mode. That shouldn’t eclipse the surprise release of 30 new TI Tiva 129 products together with an up-to-30% increase in the price of the Tiva 123. Finally, are we gearing up for a new SLAB portfolio? All the EFM32 prices at major distributors have experienced decreases down to -50% for low volumes. Stay in touch as we monitor the changes on our twitter feed: @KeremiMCU
Atmel
Atmel has released tape and reel parts numbers of its recent SAMD21 (M0+, USB) family, in all 24 part numbers. There also has been new revisions of the datasheets in particular for the D21 where we learn that there is only one DAC instead of 2.
Freescale
Freescale is changing its website this month and the only difference we captured was the removal of the KE02 list of parts, possibly a temporary glitch.
NXP
NXP is depressingly quiet this month, no product move.
Renesas
The R5F10C, D and T RL78 families now count 42 more products in production. All have LFQFP packages, up to 256kB of Flash and no USB port.
SiliconLabs
Datasheets were updated at SiliconLabs that affected Vcc min – going from 1.85V to 1.98V – and power consumption.There was an interesting price change at major distributors carrying SiliconLabs products. All volumes below 500 pieces were down significantly, sometimes down by 50%. Is this another sign that there is an imminent portfolio shuffle?
STMicroelectronics
Surprise, surprise, ST has put another 63 products on the market this month. It follows the announcement in early June of the 1.8V F0x8 and F3x8 MCUs. The F038 and F048 run a 32 kB of Flash Cortex M0 up to 50 MHz with the latter embedding USB. The F058 has 64kB of Flash and finally, the F078 adds more Flash (128kB) while keeping the USB. 18 F0x8 were introduced. The F3x8 uses the Cortex M4, 4 parts were released
The STM32F334 boasts high precision timers to support the power control market. It embeds 72MHz Cortex-M4 core with DSP+FPU and the 11 initial parts declare 16 to 64 kB of Flash.ST also announced the F411 with batch acquisition mode, allowing transfer of data while the CPU is in sleep mode. The STM32F411 carry 256 to 512 kBytes of Flash and up to 128 kBytes of SRAM, 14 devices were released, all with one USB 2.0 OTG full speed.
About a dozen unrelated parts were also made public.
Texas Instruments
Surprisingly, TI released about 30 new Tiva 129 products this month. These are fully featured 120 MHz Cortex M4 devices with 512k/1MB of Flash and up to 2 Ethernet ports. Prices range from $6.67 to $11.10 / 1ku.
There were some nice price increases for the TM4C123 this month on the TI site from +19 to +33% for 80% of this portfolio.
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