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Syzygy imo largely failed to be adopted because microcontrollers (& app processors) haven't improved all that much. We are barely seeing a lane or two of pcie 2
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
Syzygy imo largely failed to be adopted because microcontrollers (& app processors) haven't improved all that much. We are barely seeing a lane or two of pcie 2 appear.
I am just aghast at how slow so much of the computing world moves. Cortex A53 is twelve years old, & still rampantly abundant & the go to option, or it's barely improved at all A55. We still see lots of A7's too for lower power, only barely beginning to be replaced by A32. The M7 has been a significant boost but the M3/4 are enduring. ADC/DAC have gotten a bit better for microcontrollers, but we are so far away from bandwidth & connectivity being competed on, being competitive.
This was a more hopeful future.
- datameta 2y agoRecalibrate your weights toward more recent developments (post '21) and you will see a clearer picture, I think. M7 is quite popular now for TinyML applications (600MHz for an MCU!!). It's somewhere between RPi 2 and 3 based on Core Mark score and what I've seen in terms of CV capabilities. Things are moving very fast imo. MCUs can do 1080p at 30fps now and not just from faster hardware but with some impressive additions to instruction sets! Edit: After re-reading I see that you're talking about adoption rates, in which case, fair points.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoThe real reason seems to be that FMC has basically won this socket, not that MCUs/MPUs aren't powerful enough. FMC is bigger, but it's also a lot more flexible.