From my work in the consumer electronics industry designing embedded chips, fractions of a penny add into big numbers when multiplied by millions or billions of parts. See the PIC [wikipedia.org]. I don't know what the industry is dong today, but 15 years ago people were talking about building hundreds of devices for a penny. An internet connected lightbulb doesn't need to be that capable. ON/OFF/BURNOUT are it's three required states.
From my work in the consumer electronics industry designing embedded chips, fractions of a penny add into big numbers when multiplied by millions or billions of parts. See the PIC [wikipedia.org]. I don't know what the industry is dong today, but 15 years ago people were talking about building hundreds of devices for a penny. An internet connected lightbulb doesn't need to be that capable. ON/OFF/BURNOUT are it's three required states.
Yeah, for a commodity product that competes on nothing other than price. However IOT devices may compete on functionality as well and/or start out as niche products not massively deployed products. I think your point may be more true of later generation devices than it is for initial generations.
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IoT != compute (Score:5, Insightful)
this is stupid. no. just no. ok?
iot is all about low power, dedicated and it is NOT YOUR HOSTING PLATFORM for running your bullshit on.
iot has enough trouble with weak or non-existent security and the devices are just not meant to accept 'workloads' from you.
someone has been smoking from the beowulf bowl...
Why 8-bit 8051 over 32-bit ARM ? (Score:2)
Is there a big advantage to going 8-bit 8051 over ultra-low-power 32-bit ARM these days?
Re:Why 8-bit 8051 over 32-bit ARM ? (Score:1)
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From my work in the consumer electronics industry designing embedded chips, fractions of a penny add into big numbers when multiplied by millions or billions of parts. See the PIC [wikipedia.org]. I don't know what the industry is dong today, but 15 years ago people were talking about building hundreds of devices for a penny. An internet connected lightbulb doesn't need to be that capable. ON/OFF/BURNOUT are it's three required states.
Yeah, for a commodity product that competes on nothing other than price. However IOT devices may compete on functionality as well and/or start out as niche products not massively deployed products. I think your point may be more true of later generation devices than it is for initial generations.