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Espressif has initiated mass production of its ESP32-S31, a wireless RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC) featuring dual-core RISC-V processors, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and IEEE 802.15.4 connectivity. Targeted at smart home hubs, audio devices, industrial automation, and edge AI systems, the chip delivers hi

Ukrainian developer Slava S. (GitHub user slvDev) successfully ran a 28.9-million-parameter language model on the $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, demonstrating the feasibility of local AI inference on extremely low-cost hardware. Despite the chip's limited resources—512KB SRAM, 8MB PSRAM, and 16MB Fla