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DevTalk with Rich and Vin: MCU Architecture Loyalty

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DevTalk with Rich and Vin
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Jul 7, 2026
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Summary

MCU vendors always knew that, regardless of what they might say, it was relatively easy to retain existing customers and quite difficult to get engineers to switch from a competitive architecture. The biggest reason for that is the tons of software that the customer already has in its arsenal, and the difficulty of rewriting that code for a different architecture. However, and this is a biggie, AI potentially removes that hurdle and might allow for a complete code rewrite in a pre...