28 May
2025
28 May
'25
2:23 a.m.
and coffee makers, microwave ovens, automobile engine controllers,
there's not much in the embedded world that is not ARM these days, of
course RISC V wants to make zero-licensing cost inroads there
On 05/27/2025 07:19 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
network switches, etc.
On 05/27/2025 07:18 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
and wireless devices, hot spots ...
On 05/27/2025 07:16 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
and thumb (USB) drives, and power banks, and probably anything you
can connect via USB, like keyboards
On 05/27/2025 07:13 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
There are tiny ARM processors in SD cards.
On 05/27/2025 03:42 PM, sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au wrote:
>
>
>> On 28 May 2025, at 00:52, Stuff Received
>> <stuff(a)riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Everyone forgets about embedded systems. When I was still
>> noodling, there were several RTOSes that were POSIX-certified
>> (QNX and VxWorks, amongst others). Of course, these ran on the
>> higher end 32-bit MCUs, of which dozens exist in modern cars.
>> That medical stuff probably conforms to IEC 62304, regardless of
>> its internals.
>>
>> S.
>
> related:
>
> anyone on list know where all the ARM ‘CPUs’ (cores or multi-core
> chips?) get used?
>
> ARM, as the licenser, declared it licensed 250B “CPUs” in 2024.
>
> We know 1-2B go into smartphones, perhaps another 250M into
> PC-like devices (250M is approx PC market)
>
> Where do the rest go?
>
> I’ve read some HDD’s use ARM processors, so a few billion there
> perhaps.
>
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