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PCIe will probably eventually trickle down to even the kind of SoCs that go into those products, especially if M.2 NVMe becomes the preferred storage media for
by wtallis 2y ago
PCIe will probably eventually trickle down to even the kind of SoCs that go into those products, especially if M.2 NVMe becomes the preferred storage media for most other single-board computers. It'll be a long transition, since NVMe is only just starting to become viable as the primary storage for some SBCs, but I think it'll happen eventually. There really aren't a lot of reasons to prefer microSD unless you're using an SoC that simply doesn't have any better IO interfaces.
- 15155 2y agoYears will pass before common-grade MCUs have it. Only TI chips with horrendous toolchains have PCIE at the moment that I am aware of.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIsn't part of the point in this specific usecase that it's removable? NVMe for the OS is fine, but I would tend to guess that these devices consider being able to swap the SD card into another machine to add games an important feature.