• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Autonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more

    So regular cars won’t. OK.

    • username_1@programming.dev
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      22 days ago

      It doesn’t mean that RAM won’t be there. Remember microwave ovens from 30 years ago? 2 electromechanical switches: power and timer. That’s all that is needed. And look at modern microwaves now… Interesting how much RAM they have already. 64 KiB? 8 MiB? More?

      • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPM
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        22 days ago

        This page from STMicroelectronics suggests a microwave microcontroller would have about 40 KB of RAM and 256 KB of flash storage.

        I am assuming this is for a relatively mainstream microwave without a bloated interface and ads.

        Although it seems there are mutiple microcontrollers for different components.