Comment by danielbln
11 hours ago
It's already very cheap to build though. We are able to pack a ton of processing into a tiny form factor for little money (comparatively, ignoring end-consumer margins etc.).
An earbud that does ANC, supports multiple different audio standard including low battery standby, is somewhat resistant to interference, can send and receive over many meters. That's awesome for the the price. That it has enough processing to run a 33 year old game.. well, that's just technological progression.
A single modern smartphone has more compute than all global conpute of 1980 combined.
I need that in lunar-lander exponents
(imagine the lunar lander computer being an earbud ha)
Well, current smartphone would be about 10^8 times faster/more than the lunar lander.
A single Airpod would be about 10^4 times as powerful as the entire lunar lander guidance system.
Or to put another way: a single Airpod would outcompute the entire Soviet Union's space program.