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Chips that can run Doom are nowhere near the dirt cheap bottom tier. The dirt cheap bottom tier is this $.03 chip: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/26/making-a-thr

Chips that can run Doom are nowhere near the dirt cheap bottom tier. The dirt cheap bottom tier is this $.03 chip: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/26/making-a-three-cent-microcontroller-useful/ https://hackaday.com/2019/04/26/making-a-three-cent-microcon... Chips that can run Doom, though, are just about at the low end for internet-connected devices. You can't run an IoT stack on that $.03 thing. The chip in the bulb is exactly in the right ballpark for the application. You do need a fairly beefy chip to run multiple network protocols efficiently.

foobar33333 5y ago
There is no network stack on the ikea bulbs. They only support local communication via zigbee. No IP/TCP/etc. Its the gateway device that does wifi/networking.
- marcan_42 5y ago
  ZigBee is a network protocol with a network stack. Just because it isn't TCP/IP does not mean it's not a network. It has addressing, routing and routing tables, fragmentation and reassembly, discovery, error detection, packet retransmission, and everything else you'd expect from a functional network protocol.