By Ricardo Amaro
February 20, 2026
Why $20 IoT Devices Are About to Get Dangerously Smart
Ever tried cramming a 1-gigabyte AI runtime onto a $20 security camera? It is a spectacular way to instantly crash your hardware and kill your deployment timeline. For years, hardware engineers and data scientists have been trapped in a deeply frustrating compromise: either build "dumb" edge devices that rely on slow, expensive cloud APIs, or force heavily bloated software onto critically constrained hardware.
The enterprise AI market is expanding at a staggering 30% compound annual growth rate, rapidly...