While the products embedded systems engineers release to the market make it seem like technology is moving forward rapidly, the industry itself is, by comparison, slow. That’s why it was such a shock when Raspberry Pi, the renowned single-board computing creator, brought out the RP2040 microcontroller (MCU) with its dual Cortex-M0+ cores and no onboard flash. Dual-core in this class of devices is unheard of. But that is about as exciting as it has got. Progress in the world of embedded systems is otherwise measured, meaningful, and considered. But several developments are underway that could change embedded development in the decade ahead, as we shall see.