SSK and Transcend sell USB-C SSD thumb drives with speeds of 1000 MB/s. They're SSDs though, not flash memory, but they are thumb drives, not big boxes.
Right. But of course, intel was busy spinning off their Xscale business to Marvell. If they had seriously invested in it, they could have owned the coming mobile revolution.
They did push hard on their UMPC x86 SoCs (Paulsbo and derivatives) to Sony, Nokia, etc. These were never competitive on heat or battery life.
Perhaps the next question we are asking is "what happens if you give a statistical model symbolic input" and the answer appears to be, you get symbolic output.
Even more strangely, the act of giving a statistical model symbolic input allows it to build a context which then shapes the symbolic output in a way that depends on some level of "understanding" instructions.
We "train" this model on raw symbolic data and it extracts the inherent semantic structure without any human ever embedding in the code anything resembling letters, words, or the like. It's as if Chomsky's elusive universal language is semantic structure itself.
I'm not sure if this would work for you, but there are inexpensive devices that plug into an HDMI port. They appear to the computer as a monitor. I use them for screen sharing to a remote display, but they should enable to think there is a monitor attached. It negotiates the display information as if it was an actual monitor.
I could see building one with an RP2040 and OLED or Eink display.