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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by solarkraft on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:00AM (#24878642)
> These giants seem to be sleeping. What's preventing them from competing with the Chinese?

Realtek has been selling the rtl8710 for a long time, however it seems like it never really caught on (there have been some experimentations with Rust on it in the hobbyist world, but that's all I know).

https://www.cnx-software.com/2016/07/28/an-alternative-to-es...

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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by archi42 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:22PM (#24880116)
I was under the impression that tuya is moving from esp8266 to rtl8710 for their IoT ecosystem (which in turn includes many third parties, who buy their firmware + smartphone apps + cloud infrastructure from them). This primarily affects those who wish to flash tasmota on e.g. their wifi-controllable sockets.
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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by squarefoot on Saturday October 24, 2020 @10:32PM (#24883423)
Another board with interesting features that never caught up was the WiFiMCU, based on the EMW3165 SOC module by Mxchip.

http://www.wifimcu.com/ (Lua programmable just as the NodeMCU)

https://en.mxchip.com/modulelist

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