<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:50 AM Richard A. O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">One question. I can get a<br>
"Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with 1.2GHz 64-bit Quad Core and 1GB Ram"<br>
for NZD 69 including tax and run Erlang on it.<br>
(Hmm. Next time I have some spare cash I must get one...)<br>
<br>
Why would I pay NZD300 for a 300MHz board with 64MB of memory?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">My prediction is that eventually we'll see the "small embedded" market squeezed down by rather cheap powerful devices such as the rPI. My argument for this prediction hinges on power becoming free in the future (due to the current massive advances in solar and wind energy on top of better batteries).</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Currently, the power draw of the stronger chips is too high and production at scale means that shaving off a few cents here and there is worth it.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">But it looks like the price tag of a 1.2 GHZ 64 bit chip is only going one way, and this makes the added development effort of targeting a smaller chip more expensive. In turn, you need an even bigger scale of production. And so on.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">GRiSP is interesting because it can offer you a far faster time to market and lower development effort at the same or better robustness/resilience. You can thus get the lower production costs while amortizing development effort better. It is a good bet until the niche squeeze I predict above happens.<br></div></div>