If you want to sell an iot device, you can do all the compute (arduino) and WiFi for under $5 but if want to add a display the BOM cost shoots up to $50+ and that in turn means you have to make your device expensive. Someone needs to figure out how to make a diet cheap.. I am talking like $2 display thatâ(TM)s say at minimum 5 inches.
The amount of compute power in a $5 arduino is orders of magnitude less than even the Tegra X1 in the current Switch. It's a tiny microcontroller with no GPU. It's not a useful comparison.
The parent poster was thinking of *IoT devices*, and complaining that for *his use-cases* the display is the most expensive component, and dreaming about cheaper screen.
This isn't directly related to Switch nor its chipset, but to display pannels.
(Though, if you add a hardware h264 video decompression chips, and use a Cortex-M based variate of microcontroller boards (although Arduino's are more expensive than 5$), the resulting device could be a half decent client for cloud-based gaming like Google Stadia, Steam Link, etc.)
Displays are expensive (Score:1)
If you want to sell an iot device, you can do all the compute (arduino) and WiFi for under $5 but if want to add a display the BOM cost shoots up to $50+ and that in turn means you have to make your device expensive. Someone needs to figure out how to make a diet cheap .. I am talking like $2 display thatâ(TM)s say at minimum 5 inches.
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The amount of compute power in a $5 arduino is orders of magnitude less than even the Tegra X1 in the current Switch. It's a tiny microcontroller with no GPU. It's not a useful comparison.
IoT (Score:2)
The parent poster was thinking of *IoT devices*, and complaining that for *his use-cases* the display is the most expensive component, and dreaming about cheaper screen.
This isn't directly related to Switch nor its chipset, but to display pannels.
(Though, if you add a hardware h264 video decompression chips, and use a Cortex-M based variate of microcontroller boards (although Arduino's are more expensive than 5$), the resulting device could be a half decent client for cloud-based gaming like Google Stadia, Steam Link, etc.)