Atmel's AVR microcontrollers utilise their famous RISC core operating at market leading speeds to make some of the best microcontroller products available. Designed with an architecture engineered for working with compiled C language programs, there is no longer a need for assembly language or a need for inefficient and unwieldy BASIC, so you can develop your project quicker without having to learn a new language.

The ATmega162 is a low-power CMOS 8-bit microcontroller based on the AVR enhanced RISC architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single clock cycle, the ATmega162 achieves throughputs approaching 1 MIPS per MHz allowing the system designer to optimize power consumption versus processing speed.

Data sheet: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/Atmel-2513-8-bit-AVR-Microntroller-ATmega162_Datasheet.pdf