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Propeller chip, comparison with similar AVR or PIC?

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Hello, recently I found about the propeller chip. It seems very powerful. I wonder if there is an avr or a pic with 8-cores like the Propeller has??
 

No. Propeller has more cores inside. There are no multicore AVR or PIC controllers.

I wonder why such big companies have not thought about this multi-core scheme.
The propeller is even available in DIP and the official price is about $8/pc, which in my point of view seems that Paralax wanted to gain the hobbyists builders community as well.
Other multi-core micros I have found are much more expensive and are all in non-dip packages.

Why really continue to use to AVR or PIC, whereas there is a much more powerful micro at the same price? (Well, appart from special integrated peripherals)
 

I thought Propeller was death allready...
But you need many Power from Propeller, because it does all with Software (ADC, DAC, SPI and so oN!!)
My Atmega or Pic not need much Power for this, because they allready have hardware Uart, Spi ADC and so on!

Iare there any news from Propeller?
I think the last news where about 8 Years or so :-(
And since you get STm32/ARM...Propeller is't the unique performant Controller.
 
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