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"250 billion chips" I wonder how many of those are buried in landfill now.
by afandian 3y ago
"250 billion chips"
I wonder how many of those are buried in landfill now.
- not_your_vase 3y agoMany. And still, many more are bought up every year. Those small M0 and M0+ cost pennies... if you made all chopsticks in the world out of M0s instead of wood, it would be more cost effective lol (okay, maybe this is an exaggeration, but these small things are pretty much everywhere... not even speaking about chips in other, more complex devices)
- afandian 3y agoWell thank goodness for RoHS!
- KirillPanov 3y agoOnly the ones with locked^H^H^H^Hsecure bootloaders. In other words, nearly all of them. I've started calling it "Landfill Boot".
- bloggie 3y agoCertainly quite a few, there are ARM chips in single-use products such as COVID tests.
- mastax 3y agoI remember there was a disposable COVID test that had an arm processor in it.
- tmoertel 3y agoI think that the price of those tests was about $70 each, however.