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A SMORGAS-BOARD

Wearables and IoT are driving diversity in the microcontroller market

WRITTEN BY ALASDAIR ALLAN

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Hep Svadja

IF YOU’RE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ’80S AND THE HUGE RANGE OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS that sprung up in the early years of the industry — each from a different manufacturer and based around a different CPU — then the current state of the microcontroller board market may seem familiar. In the last year and a half, we’ve seen an explosion of new boards, and there doesn’t appear to be any reason to expect the trend to slow down in the near future. But the microcontroller market isn’t the personal computer ...

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