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8051s are just now getting phased out as control cores of IP blocks, which is pretty wild.

The 32-bit ARM and RISC-V cores are small enough and easier to program.

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ARM vs 8051 is a licensing fee thing usually. 8051 license terms are extremely generous compared to ARM as far as I know. RISC is a being explored more readily, but toolchains are not nearly as robust as arm/8051.

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