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pb82 | 4 years ago

The article about the Padauk is interesting. Especially the description of the FPPA feature. Multiple CPU contexts? This sounds suspiciously like SMT to me which would be a total novelty for a micro controller (afaik).

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sokoloff|4 years ago

ESP32 was released August 2016. I’m not even sure it was the first.

throwaway81523|4 years ago

The ESP32 has two separate cores, not SMT. But look at the Parallax Propeller which goes back quite a long way. Also the Padauk is not exactly SMT afaict. It's more like time slicing. The idea of SMT in eg. an x86 is that one thread can run while another is blocked waiting for memory.