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pplonbaw

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pplonbaw··on TI Claims Breakthrough in BAW On-Die-Oscillators
I, too, chuckled at the "couple of hundred microamps" quote. However he refers to the high-speed clock, which is turned on only during transmit/receive, and is indeed negligible compared to the total power consumption during RF communication.

That being said, their low-frequency on-chip oscillator specs are horrendous (50ppm PER DEGREE). You can't maintain a BTLE connection or mesh node with that kind of clock, you still need a 32kHz crystal oscillator, so TI haven't "solved" the crystal oscillator problem just yet...