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Samsung Begins Production For Its First Internet of Things-optimised Exynos Processor (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung Electronics has launched the Exynos i T200, its first processor optimised for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the company has announced. The South Korean tech giant said the chip has upped security and supports wireless connections, with hopes of giving it an advantage in the expanding IoT market. The Exynos i T200 applies Samsung's 28-nanometer High-K Metal Gate process and has multiple cores, with the Cortex-R4 doing the heavy lifting and an independently operating Cortex-M0+ allowing for multifunctionality. For example, if applied to a refrigerator, Cotext-R4 will run the OS and Cotex-M0+ will power LED displays on the doors.
Every time I check my fridge from my app I see some weird old man stretching his anus. How did he manage to stretch it that far all while fitting inside my fridge?
@editor, please fix the typos in that summary. "Cortex" is spelt 3 different ways... (wrong twice in the last sentence: Cotext and Cotex)
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With the two processors running separate OS's one can be hijacked and run malware or worse without the other processor even knowing. Didn't they learn anything from Intel?
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
Do you buy a lot of goat related products?
Why the fuck does a refrigerator need an operating system?
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A fridge capable of doing that would need to be pretty smart. It would have to be able to track contents going and and out of it and know what the hell it is, which means it needs a scanner that can read bar codes (no matter how the object is situated) or scan RFID tags on the items, but really it would need some visual recognition since just because it sees a milk carton in the fridge doesn't mean that it's not almost empty.
Doing that is going to be incredibly complex and requires solving a lot of problems that are the focus of current AI research. Right now I expect that the best a smart fridge is capable of is telling me how cold it is (or allowing me to change that) and whether or not there's ice ready in the freezer. Maybe it could do some fancy stuff like having temperature zones so part of the fridge can be kept cooler than another part, but having a fridge that knows what's in it and can automatically add stuff to a shopping list is going to take a while to achieve.