In terms of the cost & area of silicon-proven DT8051, not just other 8-bit MCUs, but also a 32-bit processor licensing comes close – says Tomek Krzyzak, the Vice President of Digital Core Design.

[c0pperdragon] set himself the task of designing a very capable 8-bit CPU using just 74HC type logic chips on a large plug-in breadboard. To emphasize the “bread” theme, he put the whole thing ...

The 8-Bit Guy is building his dream computer, heavily inspired by the Commodore ... Because a Western Design Center sales guy told a Commodore engineer that Apple was using it in their next ...

It offers similar performance to more ... The eSi-1650 16-bit CPU with instruction cache is targeted specifically for low-power applications, where typically an 8-bit CPU may have previously been used ...