There could still be space for certain hardware solutions. The eap8266 is pretty low power, but adding a bunch of cpu cores is likely to negate that a lot. Spe

There could still be space for certain hardware solutions. The eap8266 is pretty low power, but adding a bunch of cpu cores is likely to negate that a lot. Specialized hardware solutions often use less power than another cpu core. This is important because there are lots of uses involving leaving the esp running on a small battery for a long time