You are correct on most things here, but your example pricing is WAY off. You can get Linux capable microcontrollers for less than two dollars retail, and most certainly much cheaper in bulk. I want to be clear that I in no way support putting this sort of tech into these devices. I do think that with the current trend of wanting to add “AI” to consumer devices and/or siphon up as much user information as possible, inexpensive embedded Linux being very common wouldn’t shock me at all.
Can you give me an example of a microcontroller that can run Linux in production (so, not just be made to run Linux experimentally, but which actually is used in applications were it’s worth it to run Linux on it) AND which costs less than $2 in bulk?
Because the only ones I can think of, the lower end of the Esp32 range, can run Linux but it’s just not worth it for the kind of applications they end up in.
The esp32-s3 is specifically one I was thinking of, its less then $2 for purchasing a single chip. You keep moving goal posts here, so I’ll just leave it. Have a good one.
“Moving goalposts” is asking you to back your claims versus the point I was making in the posts you replied to (which include the whole “in production” part)?!
Sure, mate, salve your ego after having blindly dived into deeper waters than you expected.
You are correct on most things here, but your example pricing is WAY off. You can get Linux capable microcontrollers for less than two dollars retail, and most certainly much cheaper in bulk. I want to be clear that I in no way support putting this sort of tech into these devices. I do think that with the current trend of wanting to add “AI” to consumer devices and/or siphon up as much user information as possible, inexpensive embedded Linux being very common wouldn’t shock me at all.
Can you give me an example of a microcontroller that can run Linux in production (so, not just be made to run Linux experimentally, but which actually is used in applications were it’s worth it to run Linux on it) AND which costs less than $2 in bulk?
Because the only ones I can think of, the lower end of the Esp32 range, can run Linux but it’s just not worth it for the kind of applications they end up in.
The esp32-s3 is specifically one I was thinking of, its less then $2 for purchasing a single chip. You keep moving goal posts here, so I’ll just leave it. Have a good one.
“Moving goalposts” is asking you to back your claims versus the point I was making in the posts you replied to (which include the whole “in production” part)?!
Sure, mate, salve your ego after having blindly dived into deeper waters than you expected.