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  • jjj - Monday, September 22, 2014 - link

    They first announced Aster quite a while ago and it was sampling to some in January (that's when i've seen the first reports in the press about it) so maybe there will be some products a lot sooner than you think.
    Anyway we need proper chips for the category, not smartphone chips so hope others put some effort into it too.
  • Shadowmaster625 - Monday, September 22, 2014 - link

    Is the SoC on the back? It has to be more than 16 leads...
  • rwt - Monday, September 22, 2014 - link

    Why an ARM7 vs a Cortex-M3 or something like that?
  • Stephen Barrett - Monday, September 22, 2014 - link

    I had the same thought
  • isa - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    I realize that the departure of Anand is a severe hit to this site that may be permanent, but it would be great if there was any attempt at comparing in an insightful way this announcement with the competing ARM press release reprinted here, and any other press releases of competing IoT tech reprinted in this website in the last few days. Since I have a day job, I just don't have the time to independently assess the merits of commenting press releases to understand what is really going on, which is something this website did very well before Anand departed but is already showing significant decay since he departed.
  • Stephen Barrett - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    Hi Isa,

    I referenced this article from the M7 article when discussing the sub markets of wearables and IoT. See page 3. http://www.anandtech.com/show/8542/cortexm7-launch...

    In general, the Aster SoC from MediaTek contains an ARM7 CPU that could be replaced with the new Cortex-M7. It wouldn't change much of the rest of the SoC other than it could possibly implement tightly coupled memory with the M7.
  • anirudhgargi - Friday, September 26, 2014 - link

    Did anybody else noticed USB 1.1 ?

    Why ? saving power ?
    They can pull less power( ~100mah) if used this as an charging option. 2.0 is pretty much standard.
    Just to remember USB 1.1 controller when attached to window after give some ugly pop-ups of being slow.

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