>Too bad that the chip's price is not tiny. $0.5 per HC32L110 seems pretty expensive given that RP2040 is $1
Little do people realize that $0.50 price difference is absolutely massive when you're shipping products designed to be cheap and in high volume and I assume volume manufacturers can get even lower prices than $.50 when they buy 10.000+ units.
Anyone who cares about six sigma is not going to use barely documented or characterized IC from China. I was commenting, and the article was as well, from hobbyist perspective.
Little do people realize that $0.50 price difference is absolutely massive when you're shipping products designed to be cheap and in high volume and I assume volume manufacturers can get even lower prices than $.50 when they buy 10.000+ units.