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Subject: Re: ANN: Cortex GNAT RTS 2018-07-15
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On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 11:43:09 AM UTC+2, Paul Rubin wrote:
> fabien chouteau writes:
> > STMicro is pushing a lot in the direction of "smartphone like user
> > interfaces" for their micro-controller. I think the M7 is part of that
> > strategy.
> 
> But why not use a smartphone chip if you want a smartphone UI?  You can
> get a complete Raspberry Pi Zero for less than the cost of an M7 CPU all
> by itself.

Power consumption, cost at lower volume, complexity of the hardware, ruggedness, smaller software.

I agree that with M7 at 700MHz the line between Cortex-A and Cortex-M is very thin.