Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by boznz on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:08PM
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64-Bit architectures and GPUs are totally different beasts requiring MMU's and OS's and whole development teams.
My last project used a 14 pin processor with 195 lines of bare metal C code compiling to 486 bytes of Flash memory and running on an internal 32Khz clock. This is more the target 8051 market though I must admit some cortex M0 processors are getting as cheap to use here.
The Propeller Chip is awesome (no interrupts and 8 processors is a really cool concept) but at $8 it is going against the big boys (Freescale/ST/Microchip) with their more flexible memory, power management and rich peripheral sets. I would love for one of the big players to licence the propeller core but it wont happen.
Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by boznz on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:57PM
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.. Forgot the propeller 1 core IS open source now and still no takers, real lack of vision out there.
Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by baybal2 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:14AM
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64 bit is expensive on memory bandwidth (and on size of memory as such,) and memory bandwidth costs a lot in terms of die size relative to microscopic size of MCU cores.
Most of MCU applications don't do much of computations as such
I dunno, it seems like there might be a market for that sort of thing. You train your model, pop it on a chip that consumes microwatts per megahertz? Something like that could be appealing.
It might also be impossible. I don't design chips. But I do think targeting both mobility and parallel processing could be cool. Maybe something like what Parallella is doing.