Although today these two large companies have become one (Microchip Inc.), the great Atmel technology has not ceased to exist and will not, at least what was initially designed by Atmel.

When we just started in the world of microcontrollers perhaps many of us ask ourselves some occasion, which is better? Atmel (AVR) or Microchip (PIC)? It seems that this question was passing from generation to generation.

While it is true that the PIC community is the largest in the world we can not ensure that its technology is really better than any other microcontroller, it is necessary to investigate a little more about the characteristics of each of them before issuing an opinion.

So this post tries to present the main differences that the AVR microcontrollers and the PIC have in a general way, it should be noted that thanks to the union of these companies are currently in production new models of microcontrollers with both technologies.