I'm working on a startup and I have come to know that AVR is closed source so I wonder if I can use their chips inside my commercial product?
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2I'm not sure I understand the link between closed source and use in a commercial product? Also what would be the issue? Legal? Contractual? Other?– jcaronMar 12, 2020 at 13:10
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Assuming that anything sold publicly is a commercial products, countless Chinese products are sold commercially with AVR chips in them.
Arduino itself contains an AVR chip (ATmega168, I think).
Or take for example the Convoy flashlights, which use ATtiny84 to handle the extra features (blinking, temperature measurement, ...).
But really, the examples are countless.
What would be the business case of Atmel, if the chip could not be used in commercial (= remunerative) products?
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Atmel actually made a severe misstep with their MCU availability a few years back. Later they were bought out by Microchip.– jaskijMar 13, 2020 at 9:20