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Nice... I'm glad we're finally getting into the 64-bit age on microcontrollers so 4+ GB of RAM isn't too far off... I've been using the latest Cubieboard (http:
by Jach 13y ago
Nice... I'm glad we're finally getting into the 64-bit age on microcontrollers so 4+ GB of RAM isn't too far off... I've been using the latest Cubieboard (http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cub...) for a project and it's been performing pretty well, but having more RAM and x86_64 would be great.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI think we are getting 64-bit microcontrollers because everything else is 64-bit, so 64-bit has become the natural/cost-effective choice. Rather than because uC's are regularly utilizing 4+ GB. It seems unlikely that 4+ GB of RAM will be common just yet.
- ah- 13y agoI wouldn't call the minnowboard a microcontroller, it's more similar to other single board computers like the Pandaboard and the odroid boards. And 2GB are already common for such boards, so 4GB are really not far off.
- TD-Linux 13y agoI would not consider the Minnowboard or Cubieboard a microcontroller. It's usually called an "application processor". Microcontrollers generally have onboard flash and ram. 32-bit microcontrollers have only recently gotten cheap enough to supplant the old 8 and 16 bit mainstays. I don't expect to see AArch64 on any of them anytime soon.