Esp32

Why ESP32C5?

I’m researching hardware options for an upcoming project, and the ESP32 family appears to be the best fit for our current requirements.

For years, a major drawback of Espressif chips was limited support to 2.4GHz WiFi only. Why does this matter? Having a 2.4GHz device on a WiFi network degrades performance for all other devices, forcing users to set up separate WiFi routers just for 2.4GHz devices. Additionally, the initial configuration proved frustrating—when your phone is on 5GHz, the ESP Touch protocol doesn’t work reliably.

Espressif announced on 05/11/2015 the upcoming ESP32 chip:

 

While the specs are impressive a lot of questions a rise :

• Support – Espressif is a small company as far as we knew – would they be able to support both chips in the long term?
• Compatibility with esp8266?  – The new ESP32 will use the RTOS based SDK and most APIs are said to be compatible with the esp8266 SDK.
• Price – The price will be higher than esp8266  but not much higher.

Beta testing program is coming soon.