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'Neural network' spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain

Gideon 1

Re: Most Behind the Times

"Since when did a microcontroller have cache, TLBs, an MMU, and all the other gubbins needed by an application CPU."

Microcontrollers have had these features, and more (e.g. graphics accelerators), for many years. It is a microcontroller if it has built-in peripherals to control things.

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