Espressif's upcoming ESP32‑S31 is a dual‑core RISC‑V wireless MCU featuring a high‑performance core with FPU/SIMD, a low‑power core, 62 GPIO, gigabit Ethernet, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, plus a rich set of peripherals, while offering fewer multimedia interfaces than the ESP32‑P4.
The ESP32‑S31 is a new dual‑core RISC‑V wireless microcontroller from Espressif featuring a high‑performance core, low‑power core, 62 GPIO, gigabit Ethernet, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, GPU, VPU and extensive peripherals, but it lacks some multimedia interfaces found in the ESP32‑P4, making its media capabilities more limited while still being possibly the most powerful ESP32 SoC released.
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