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You forgot the most important parts: they also have a dedicated pattern recognition engine, and they claim everything is very low power. Let's wait and see if
by minthd 11y ago
You forgot the most important parts: they also have a dedicated pattern recognition engine, and they claim everything is very low power.
Let's wait and see if it's true. I remember their Galileo chip was indeed low-power.
- makomk 11y agoThe Galileo was advertised as low-power, but the reality was rather uglier: https://learn.adafruit.com/embedded-linux-board-comparison/power-usage https://learn.adafruit.com/embedded-linux-board-comparison/p... (And remember, that's comparing it to the original RPi with its already-ancient main CPU and inefficient linear voltage regulators. What's more, take a look at the performance comparison on the page before. Nasty.) Also, the competing chips are fast enough and low-power enough that they essentially are dedicated pattern recognition engines with the right firmware. If you look at for instance Apple's M8 motion processor, that's just a Cortex-M3 chip, and not even a particularly power-efficient one by modern standards. I wouldn't even be surprised to find that Intel's just embedding a competing microcontroller core as their pattern recognition engine; it's how everyone else does it.