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To: i-node who wrote (462645)	3/10/2009 6:52:43 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575182

"Never occurred to me embedded apps would be that small but I guess it takes all kinds." In quantity, you can get some microcontrollers for $0.25 or less. At that price, they can be used for a lot of things that used to take small quantities of logic chips. The smaller ones I talked about are more expensive. A couple od bucks single quantity. Closer to a buck in volume. Yet it still has a decent set of peripherals. mouser.com With Zigbee(cheap wireless networking) in the mix these days, these things are going to be everywhere doing all kinds of things.