Draft talk:TI MSPM0
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[edit]@{Caleb Stanford} sorry I think our comments crossed on the way, you responded while I was writing my second comment. I inserted the quote on the market size to emphasize why a new product line in this area is significant, especially coming from a US domestic manufacturer in current atmosphere of in-shoring and shortening supply chains.
Texas Instruments may not be so widely known, but they are essential to the development of computing hardware technology in the last half-century; for instance, their TTL chips were the building blocks of most computers between 1960s and 1980s. Today, their SoC controllers are used in IoT, while their MSP430 are in a lot of consumer devices and are very popular with hobbyists such as myself. MSPM0 is significant because it is designed to be software-compatible (to a degree) with MSP430, while providing significantly more code space and speed.
My four references would be
- Hackaday article and discussion in the maker/hobbyist circles: List, Jenny (2023). "New Part Day: TI Jumps In To The Cheap MCU Market". Hackaday. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
- and another article from Circuit Cellar (I didn't even realize that they are still around, I grew up reading them when Steve Ciarcia wrote for them in BYTE Magazine in the 80s): "TI releases a new ARM Cortex-M0 portfolio".
- Electronics Engineering Journal's article about their super-small rice grain-size package: Leibson, Stephen (2025). "MSPM0 is the world's most teeny 32-bit microcontroller". EE Journal Daily. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
- and another industry publication: "Tiny MCU".