With so much built into the chip itself, [atomic14] wondered how much support circuitry it really needed and set about building the most minimalist ESP32 development board possible. Starting with ...

At its core, the ESP32 chip is not much more than an integrated circuit, a huge mass of transistors ... expensive to get them paired with development boards of some type for easy access to things ...

Espressif Systems has just started mass production of the ESP32-C5 RISC-V wireless microcontroller with dual-band (2.4/5 GHz) ...