[peteforde]

Oh yeah?

Remind me how many PIO channels does the C6 have?

Also, could you confirm that the RP2350 consumes 2-3x less power when idling?

If you have the contact details for any certification labs that don't charge extra for radio modules even if you're not using them in your product, that'd be super helpful as well.

[ozim]

Unnecessary confrontation.

I am just hyped about ESP I have. I also have bunch of old RPi’s.

I guess power consumption can be lower on C6 if I turn off BLE and WiFi.

[peteforde]

It's not a question of "unnecessary". You just don't like it when someone points out that you're making shallow statements and you don't even realize it.

When you frame two MCUs intended for different purposes as competition, you're completely missing why there are so many different useful MCU families in the first place.

If you need a programmable IO state machine (or twelve) then you need the RP2350, period. It's a feature that enables entire domains of functionality that wouldn't otherwise be possible. For example, I'm using it to perform a real-time 12 output MIDI THRU that doesn't tax the CPU cores. Nothing like that exists on the ESP32 family.