The 1GHz MCU i.MX RT1170 is available!?

[SiliconWizard]

There is a need for simple devboards. NXP's Dev board is over-featured and not generic enough. ST seems to get it, literally every subfamily has a nuclio board. And the embedded artists board is (1) EXPENSIVE (I don't even know if I'm interested, but she wants a ring), (2), the carrier board at least, irritating to interface.  The teensy formula is a winner here, other than JTAG/SWD they have the best form factor.

Agreed. Nucleo boards are great for that. No gadgets, cheap, and most IOs broken out. As I remember, TI did something similar with their MSP430 and MSP432 MCUs.

Teensy boards are almost that, but most of them have very few IOs broken out... The Teensy 4.1 has more and is great, but still, that's few IOs.

Buf when we say "there is a need", is this significant enough that vendors would bother? A few of us want boards like this, but I have witnessed countless times that even seasoned engineers tend to favor fancy boards with a lot of buttons and displays even when they actually don't need them or will use something completely different in the end. I dunno. Maybe it's just the kid that's still within us. Another factor is that engineers buying dev boards in the context of their employed jobs will tend to favor expensive stuff, as long as their management is OK with that, because it's not their own money. Conversely, engineers buying cheap devopment tools, even if those are perfectly fit for what they need, may sometimes face their management's opinion, like "are you sure? a $20 dev board? must be a toy!"

[tmadness]

I know, maybe I have a "Hack it together" mentality for prototypes, most career engineers want that over featured board when going through their employer. But I've experienced how this reverse mentality of buy the expensive dev board go south so many times. There are too many unknowns, I trust NXP but  not all their products are equal. Some of their products may not meet me at the level I want, the support could be iffy etc. Give me any opportunity to buy your product in a generic usable form. If I like it you will hear back from me.

[ali_asadzadeh]

Any luck with buying the parts? it seems they are not in stock months after months

[cgroen]

Any luck with buying the parts? it seems they are not in stock months after months

Still waiting for chips. A funny thing is I ordered EVK's from both Mouser and Farnell.
I got the one from Mouser some weeks ago, the ones at Farnell is listed as "on stock" (22 currently). They have been that for the past several weeks, but I get updates from them that my order is postponed because they are NOT on stock, so far the delivery time is pushed to week 17 (did move from week 15 to 17 in the last 2 mails from them)
I have asked their customer "support" whats up with that, they have promised me every time to get back, nothing heard 
So far, I'm satisfied with my board from Mouser 

[ali_asadzadeh]

Are you satisfied with the MCU? is it worth it?