On Aug 31 2006, 12:34, Hans Franke wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> Interesting question. I know that the last time
I was paying
attention to
> that area, embedded systems were starting to use
386 chips. And
my Tek
scope has an
8088 in it...
After all, it doesn't doesn't realy matter what CPU is used, as
long as it does it's job as a black box controll system.
But yeah, Pentiums (and alikes) are already the base for most new
embedded developments.
"Most"? I don't think so. 2 billion ARM/XScale cores licensed in the
last 12 months, and about a quarter that number of MIPS chips/cores.
Pentiums don't even come close.
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