Espressif's older chip series

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Espressif's older chip series

Postby chhhhhhh » Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:32 am

Hi. I was on the Wayback Machine (espressif.com, 2011) and I found ESP6000, AS5900 and ESP3000 chip series on the products section. Can anyone clarify these chips?
https://web.archive.org/web/20110201132 ... om/#expand

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Re: Espressif's older chip series

Postby Sprite » Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:25 pm

Espressif started out, way back, as a consultancy company to develop specialized silicon for customers, before building generally available WiFi chips. I imagine those are those chips. Not sure where you get those part numbers, though; I don't see them on that site and the ESP3000 seems to be made by Via, not Espressif?

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Re: Espressif's older chip series

Postby chhhhhhh » Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:07 pm

Espressif started out, way back, as a consultancy company to develop specialized silicon for customers, before building generally available WiFi chips. I imagine those are those chips. Not sure where you get those part numbers, though; I don't see them on that site and the ESP3000 seems to be made by Via, not Espressif?
Maybe this link?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140106210 ... ducts.html

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Re: Espressif's older chip series

Postby Sprite » Mon Aug 04, 2025 6:16 am

Gotcha. Given that from what I know (which is that the ESP8000 family only had the ESP8089, which has the same silicon as the ESP8266), I think those chips were incremental changes that were planned but never materialized... back in the day, the focus was still on chips that you would put in e.g. a tablet; the fact that the ESP8266 would go and become so successful in the IoT market was not a fact yet.

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