Re:Cray versus Raspberry Pi
by jgalt212 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @09:12AM
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I won't rest until the average microcontroller in an optical mouse is more powerful than a Cray 1.
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A lot of touchscreens meet that requirement. Turns out it's often cheaper to solve problems with algorithms than avoid them by design.
I'm not aware of any optical mouse using a general purpose MCU, to my knowledge they are all using ASICs
Some gaming mice do for running RGB lights, macros, or whatever.
Re:Cray versus Raspberry Pi
by sweetcocomoose on Saturday June 14, 2025 @10:21AM
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Nordic dominates the market for keyboards and mice. Programmable MCUs with BLE radios are required for any wireless devices.
Re:Cray versus Raspberry Pi
by bigfatkitten on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:34AM
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There are millions, if not tens of millions of USB and PS/2 keyboards and mice out there powered by Cypress MCUs with 8051 cores.
That's a lot of cores