I think there's a lot of companies scared to roll out application processors instead of microcontrollers. I wonder what your thoughts are on if it can save development time due to Linux dev environment Vs baremetal.

Obviously lots of applications it would be impossible to use a 264 bga but I've been there with projects with 3 CAN buses and Ethernet plus flash memory and thought maybe we should be using a cortex A7.

I'm sure you know but file storage on microcontrollers can drive you insane ha ha and the same with graphics+TCP IP