You think a Cortex-M0+ in a disposable vape is wasteful, wait until you see the ones with colour touchscreens and Bluetooth radios. It's probably only a matter of time before they start running Android on them.

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malfist 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

What's insane is how cheap all those components are. A quadcore processor with ram and memory, WiFi and Bluetooth for pennies at wholesale.

The latest and fastest GPUs might be a marvel of technology, but so is the tech that let's us make and esp32 for almost nothing

	▲	balder1991 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I guess at this point it’s safe to assume humanity won’t regress to a time before computers anymore.
	▲	ants_everywhere 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Imagine a beowulf cluster of... wait probably not
	▲	ta12653421 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yeah, in 1992 we ran Doom on a 386DX 20Mhz and 320x200 VGA mode :-D (and it was slooooow and ugly!)

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marstall a day ago | parent | prev [-]

how long til they have GPT-5 level LLMs?