The Atmel microcontroller is 6 times the performance of another similar sizes microcontroller.

Atmel brought to the market its new picoPower™ AVR® ATtiny10, which has 1K bytes of programmable Flash memory, 32 bytes of internal SRAM, up to 12 MIPS of processing throughput, 8-bit A/D converter, analog comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM. All this in a 6 pin device which is perfect for size constrained high volume consumer applications.

With the use of the AVR CPU the ATtiny10 has the ability to provide 6 times the performance of any other similar sized microcontroller in the market. It also has very low power consumption because of its power saving sleep modes, combined with Atmel’s picoPower technology.

"When you see the 2x3 mm SOT-23 package you get surprised by the high performance inside a small device. It houses an analog comparator, four A/D converter channels, a 16-bit timer counter that can run two phase and frequency correct PWM outputs, and last but not least a very powerful CPU," said Jukka Eskelinen, Director, tinyAVR Product Marketing.
"If your application needs more processing power, lower current consumption, or if you just want a change the ATtiny10 is your solution."

The AVR microcontroller development tools used are the same for all TinyAVR micrcontrollers. The AVR Studio® AVR integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel's website.

Source: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/corporate/view_detail.asp?ref=&FileName=ATtiny1...