As a hardware developer I second this. TBH the machines we have barely boot as is and the layout constraints are becoming harder and harder to achieve leading to thicker boards with complex routing. If we were to add in say the hardware of a simple smartphone it would take about 1/3 of the board space, my guess is the upcharge would be about ~$1,000. Sure the chip may not cost much (though it is not insignificant) but the rest of the system would be expensive.
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As a hardware developer I second this. TBH the machines we have barely boot as is and the layout constraints are becoming harder and harder to achieve leading to thicker boards with complex routing. If we were to add in say the hardware of a simple smartphone it would take about 1/3 of the board space, my guess is the upcharge would be about ~$1,000. Sure the chip may not cost much (though it is not insignificant) but the rest of the system would be expensive.