[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

They're still reeling from the CHIPS act rug pull, they put a lot of their liquidity into spinning up their new fabs and now that Trump has put in effect frozen parts of that funding I would venture to guess they are putting a lot of their own money into the project which spooking investors

cutting R&D as a CPU vendor is like a hospital selling its MRI machines to cover payroll.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's an amazing amount of hardware crammed into a tiny wearable.

    LoRa, NFC, wifi, Bluetooth/BLE, haptics, IMU, NPU, mic, speaker, touchscreen, 32GB sd-card slot, and USB-C.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Just something I threw together for a road trip, its cheaper than running a standard media server on normal hardware or a raspi, and does just the bare minimum for me and the guys to get entertainment on the road. Basically the same thing that most airlines use for inflight entertainment these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My goal was to keep it small and cheap (its also my first time working with one of these things) but I am almost done the big fancy polish update which will add much better file type support, and can even do higher quality HD video now, well soon in like a day or two when I post it lol. I am also working on a raspi 2w version for it though since the ARM board have some useful features!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The cheap drones currently in use require human control. The next generation will be autonomous with automatic targeting, so no human input and impervious to jamming. This requires a lot of processing power. The world is about to become a very scary place....

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Military doesn't use cutting edge dies like 14A. Armed forces prefer rock solid performance under duress from older, larger dies. Not 8086 levels, but like 45nm architecture. The older dies have the benefit of mature logistics and material sources which make supply more reliable while years of iterative manufacturing QC has driven the costs to the lowest possible.

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