Looked at Digikey to get them as I needed a few to solder on board and saw that those with less memory costs more than one with more memory. Why?

Why are ATMega8 and 168 more costly than 328?

ChrisTenone May 17, 2018, 12:36am 5

Nor are value and price. Economics is known as the dismal science.

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