I got a Tiva (Stellaris) Launchpad a while ago, played around with it, found the chip very exciting and wanted to use it in a number of small-scale designs. But a quick check on Farnell (UK) shows that they haven't even heard of TM4C. Mouser has none, and the pricing for the only "stocked" chip that I can buy in 10 qty is 6.5EUR. That's rather disappointing given that I can get a Kinetis K10 for less than 2EUR from Farnell *today*.
Now, I do prefer TI documentation, I like the TI microcontrollers I've used so far, and I realize the basic Kinetis K10 is a 50MHz chip without an FPU. But still, it does have the DSP instructions, it has a >3x price advantage, and it is available now from Farnell!
So, while I realize that TI employees that monitor these forums aren't setting the pricing, I just wanted to get a rough feel -- is the Tiva-C family intended to be price-competitive with Freescale's Kinetis at hobby/small-scale quantities?
Should I wait?