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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by francislavoie on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:23AM (#24877752)
I probably have no idea what I'm talking about because I don't work in this space, but in a previous life, our company was looking at Nordic for chips, and they had some pretty solid offerings for bluetooth chips. IIRC it was around $5 per chip but I may be totally wrong. It was one of these I think, and it's been about 3 years since I looked into this https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-short-range-wi...
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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by fortyrod on Saturday October 24, 2020 @05:23AM (#24877985)
Nordic has some great parts and their tools and stack are first-rate. No WiFi though, last I looked anyhow.
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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by francislavoie on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:24PM (#24880974)
Right. We particularly cared about Bluetooth 5 + USB, NFC and cryptography chip was a bonus.
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