[fermienrico]

Yes, people don't realize how inadequate ESP32 is for commercial use. There are literally no commercial products that use ESP32 (or its older brother ESP8266) besides some chinese cheap toys on Amazon.

There are packages out there that use ESP32 as a "augmentation" chip to do OTA with a main processor being STM32 or NXP. There are also major security flaws and silicon revisions made by ESP32 that makes the whole thing reek of inadequacy beyond anything a hobbyist would do.

ESP32 -> Hobby use only. Don't spin up $500k of tooling and HVM batch relying on a weak CPU that will give you some chance of a complete recall or losing your customer base that took many years to build.

Hobbyists on Youtube and EE Stackoverflow are oblivious to the professional world. Let me know if you would like sources, I don't have time to dig into it but esp32.net is a good place.

[Denvercoder9]

> There are literally no commercial products that use ESP32 (or its older brother ESP8266) besides some chinese cheap toys on Amazon.

There are lots of commerical IoT devices that use the ESP chips (Shelly, Sonoff, Tuya e.g.).

[mopsi]

And due to popularity of ESP in hobby circles, there are many good open-source firmwares for those devices, such as ESPurna with its very impressive feature set: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna

The final product is better than almost any "professional" IoT device. I'd rather risk with higher odds of system failures (the Atom bug showed that not even Intel is safe) than suffer daily with slow, buggy, expensive, restricted and privacy-hostile cloud-connected trash from the likes of Logitech.

[Leherenn]

We use an esp32 commercially to provide a web interface (including doing OTA) to our chip. Works pretty decently.