Texas Instruments announced the introduction of the TMS470 platform of ARM7 family-based general purpose processors. Based on the 32-bit ARM7TDMI processor, TMS470 MCUs offer up to 60MHz of performance. Combined with TI's portfolio of on-chip peripherals, the complete TMS470 platform will include seven devices ranging from 64KB up to 1MB of flash memory.

Running at 48MHz, the TMS470R1A64, A128 and A256 are immediately available from TI and start at $4.95 for 1K quantities and offer 64KB, 128KB and 256KB of embedded flash memory, respectively. The 60MHz TMS470R1A288, A512, A768 and A1024 will be made available throughout 2005 starting at $8.95 for 1K quantities and offer 288KB, 512KB, 768KB and 1MB of embedded flash memory.