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Originally Posted by DerAlte  Since you are a software developer I assume you are familiar with NDAs? Many of us will be violating NDAs if we did! 
Perhaps it would be very illuminating if you compare the BoMs of that Router and an average HU. Now compare the BoM cost with the selling cost per unit. If you were an HU designer, you would be hard-pressed to use a micro-controller at all. |
Agree that it might be economical to build a single chip that does all things all things instead of building HU using generic microprocessor + RAM + Flash etc. Specially if volume is high.
But its hard to digest that integrated chip would be 8 bit.
And reasoning is the same.. it has to do MP3/WMA etc + USB + FAT and many more things.