alt Hacker NewsI would not consider ESP32 high-end MCU, it still lacks many peripheral(DSP, GPU), its core clock is not high(only 240mhz iirc).
Recently they release ESP32P4, with very strong performance, but like you guess, without Radio
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chillingeffect • yesterday at 1:06 PM
You got downvotes but im a firmware eng and can point out more esp deficiencies. #1 completely fake FPU that they lie aboutm. #2 awful memory bandwidth. Not only slow but unpredictable. #3 small onboard memory. #4 low clock speed.
We are talking about an MCU, not a CPU :)
I think once we start talking about GPU, MMU, USB, display, etc, we're getting towards a CPU of sorts.
Speaking of a low-end CPU, I want to test out the RV1103 Rockchip, those crazy little chips are running Linux apparently [1], and even able to run Python [2]. Depending on power draw, a Linux-based smart watch could be on the horizon.
[1] https://www.luckfox.com/EN-Luckfox-Pico
[2] https://wiki.luckfox.com/Luckfox-Pico/Luckfox-Pico-SDK