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I don't know that I would say Atmel has embraced GCC. Consider the case of the AVR32: Atmel's port is in a fork of GCC, and has not been merged upstream. Considering how long they've been maintaining their fork, I'm not sure it ever will be merged.

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I believe they were working on upstreaming their changes at the time, but as the sister comment said, AVR32 never really took off and is now basically dead.

I still have a couple of AVR32 NGW100 dev boards, they were really nice to work with.

I think AVR32 is dead (also UC3, AP7 died years ago). I've not seen any development the last years. I guess they don't want to compete with their own ARM's.

In a few meet and greets, the Atmel app engineers mentioned that they always steer people to ARM parts unless they have a requirement that absolutely doesn't fit it, then they push AVR32 parts (and seemingly hesitantly).

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