This is thanks to Atmel's picoPower technology, designed to use a true 1.8V supply, an ultra-low power crystal oscillator, proprietary techniques for reducing leakage current, and a brown-out ...

It is one of our favorite chips, and the brains behind the Arduino UNO and its clones, and it’s getting a tweak (PDF). The ATmega328 and other megaX8-series chips have undergone a subtle desi… ...