Opened up a random microsoft keypad. It has no names on it, which I hate.
The main chip is an nRF24LE1 from Nordic Semiconductor.
It's a microcontroller with 16 kilobytes of flash, 1 kilobyte of RAM, another 1.5 kilobytes of NVRAM, and it does 2.4 GHz wireless.
AND PUNCH OUT ANOTHER ENTRY ON YOUR CARD, IT'S AN 8051!
@foone What's with all these secretly coded chips that are actually 8051s? Is it something like "The first rule about the 8051 club is you don't talk about the 8051 club" or something?
I mean, what's the rationale?