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Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by fra on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:04PM (#13119700)
I think you're using the wrong metric. It's not flash/RAM that makes something "IoT", it's size, cost, and power.
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Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by keithnz on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:39PM (#13119849)
when it comes to power, low end chips win by order of magnitudes ( for example http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/30009941G.pd... ). But it all depends on what your power constraints really are
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Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by bsder on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @12:45AM (#13120717)
flash/RAM == size, cost, and power

Look at a die microphotograph of an ARM Cortex M4.

The RAM takes up more than half the die area. Flash is about a third of the die area. ALL the functional units and processing cores takes up less than 1/4 of the die area.

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Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by future1979 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:11AM (#13122599)
Very good point. For IoT widgets and perhaps even wearables, I'd rank things by power, size and cost coming in a bit later. The old way had cost first but people are seeing the light.
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