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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by antoniuschan99 on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:09AM (#38220566)
That's not true anymore. There was a shift to Beken Chips a year or two ago so a lot of your Amazon WiFi iot stuff uses that now (Tuya and Tasmota). Check out OpenBeken. I can't find much info on it but thinking it's cheaper than esp's probably more similar to esp8266 than esp32. Espressif chips are much more secure nowadays compared to the esp8266 days.
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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by graphe on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:00PM (#38222157)
The beken ones don't have cheap Dev boards but I heard they are better sometimes. I don't know if they're better but DIY for them isn't so far.

I don't think security is a real problem for me. Smart devices on their own intranet takes away a lot of problems.

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