| ▲ | dsign 4 hours ago | |
Kind of shocking that a 1980 chip could do 80 bits floating points. It makes me a little mad at all of those microcontrollers from this year, 46 years later that ship without floating point support or, at best, 32 bits, but they do come with a "secure island" and a radio capable to ring ET. | ||
| ▲ | jart 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yeah even NASA doesn't need that many bits. Ken said it himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971913 | ||
| ▲ | shakna 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Espressif did finally added back an FPU to the ESP32-S3. (The original ESP32 also has one). They tried, with the H- and P- lines to effectively make it a paid extra over the regular productions. At least they accepted when the market disagreed. | ||
| ▲ | russdill 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
But they can, it's just not accelerated by hardware built specifically for the task | ||