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These MCUs are well suited for a wide variety of applications, such as:
disposable devices (e.g. pregnancy testers, glucose meters, dialysis monitors and drug testers);
logic control (e.g. passive discrete-logic functions such as delays, smart gates, signal conditioning, simple state machines and encoders/decoders);
mechatronics (e.g. smart switches, mode selectors, remote I/Os, timers and LED flashers);
electronic glue (e.g. bug fixes for ASICs or PCBs, signal inversion, timing delays, feature upgrades and late-stage changes).

Anywhere to check the 10k price for ATtiny13A and ATtiny25 to compare with ATtiny10 prices?
I believe ATtiny13A is the cheapest AVR with 6 I/O-pins and ATtiny25 the second cheapest.

All six PIC10F family members feature options with comparators and ADCs, as well as purely digital versions; and all can be purchased today at http://www.microchipdirect.com, starting at $0.29 each in 10,000-unit quantities.

If you check the Business Account Pricing for +5000 devices of PIC10F200T-I/OT at http://www.microchipdirect.com then the price is $0.41, so I don't know if the claimed $0.29 each in 10,000-unit quantities is true.

Has anyone seen programmers that support the ATtiny10 ? Studio 4 supports it, but says to use the STK600. The STK600 documentation does not show support for the '10.

$0.29 per 100K units is real.

You did mean 10k right?

Volume price for 10k units is $0.35.

Quote I received was 100,000 - $0.29. 50,000 - $0.315

Six-pin microcontroller runs at up to 12 Mips

Atmel has introduced a 6-pin microcontroller.
The 8bit AVR ATtiny10 has 1kbyte of flash and 32byte of SRAM in a 2x3mm SOT-23 package.
Performance is claimed to be up to 12Mips, and peripherals include an 8bit ADC, an analogue comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM.
“The 16-bit timer counter can run two phase and frequency correct PWM outputs,” said Atmel director of product marketing Jukka Eskelinen. “If your
application needs more processing power, lower current consumption, or if you just want a change the ATtiny10 is your solution.”
Atmel is almost five years behind Microchip in offering a 6-pin microcontroller, and has chosen the same pin pattern as Microchip’s PIC10F2xx offerings.
It is possible that Atmel’s acquisition of Hampshire-based touch control firm Quantum Research has something to do with the new product.
Quantum’s chips were re-badged, pre-programmed microcontrollers, initially from Microchip. Its QT100 single channel touch controller is likely based on a member of the PIC12F series.
Quantum appears to have been migrating to Atmel AVR processors even before the buy-out and it is l ikely that Atmel had to develop a 6-pin microcontroller to allow an AVR-based replacement for the QT100 to be introduced - which is now available as the QT100A.
With a 6-pin SOT-23 sized microcontroller already in production for the QT100 replacement, Atmel may have released a user-programmable version as a lowcost way to go head to head with the PIC10Fxx series.
Samples of the ATtiny10 are available now www.atmel.com/tinyAVR

http://www.hpinfotech.ro/html/cvavr_history.htm

Looks like Atmel have also planned future ATtiny5 and ATtiny20. Both also based on the AVR8L reduced core like ATtiny10.
Given the names, it's likely the ATtiny5 and ATtiny 20 will just be 0.5 kB and 2 kB versions of the 1 kB ATtiny10.

Welcome to AVR Studio 4.17 (07/2009)

Part support

The following (19) new parts have been added to AVR Studio since 4.16 SP1:

- ATtiny4, ATtiny5, ATtiny9, ATtiny87, ATtiny261A, ATtiny861A, ATtiny2313A, ATtiny4313,
ATmega644PA, ATmega16HVB, ATmega16M1, ATmega64M1, ATmega64C1, ATmega8U2, ATmega16U2,
ATmega32U2, ATxmega192D3, AT90SCR100, ATmega128RFA1

Key Parameters:
Flash (Kbytes) 1
SRAM (Bytes) 32

Anyhow, the ATtiny10 is a somewhat odd creature when it comes to AVRs: It has 16 work registers rather than the usual 32 (R16..R31). In addition to that it has 32 bytes of SRAM.

Nephazz, If you want to "play" then Simulator V2 in 4.17RC2...