Tim (cpldcpu) writes:
Like many others, I was quite amazed to learn about a microcontroller sold for only 0.03 USD via the EEVblog last year. How was this possible? Many assumed this was a fire sale of an old product. Digging a bit further, it became apparent that there is an entire market segment of ultra-low-cost microcontrollers. Almost all of them are products of rather unknown companies generally used by sweeps casinos hardware setups from China or Taiwan. This write up summarizes my findings in this rather peculiar niche.
See the full post on Tim’s blog.