[vardump]

Yes and no. Plenty of such applications that use a µC + an FPGA. FPGA interfaces with some DDR memory and CMOS/CCD/whatever.

Up to you what you call it.

[misiek08]

So you make hardware costing dozens of thousands of dollars and brag about memory on 5$ chip? That explains a lot why so many medical and industrial (I haven’t touch military hardware) are so badly designed, with some sad proprietary protocols and dead few months after warranty passes. Today I’ve learned!

[vardump]

As if that depends on the engineers!

When you make 1M thingies, $5 savings each means $5M CEO comp.