They're also very poor value for money if you need millions of them.
There are similar chips at a quarter of the price.
Obviously for hobbyist stuff, $1 doesn't really matter.
People are discussing Arduino alternatives, so yes, we are firmly within hobbyist territory.
Can you give an example of a chip with software-defined IO coprocessors that is 1/4 the price? The pricing I’m getting on the RP2350 is 0.6EUR per chip.
When I’ve compared to other dual-core SoCs with programmable IO, like NXP with FlexIO (~€11) or ESP32 chips with RMT (~€1) they are much more expensive than the RP2350.. is there a selection of programmable IO chips I’m missing?