26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
6:18 p.m.
On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:17 AM, geoffrey oltmans wrote:
PowerPC didn't really lose though, did it? I mean,
it did in the
desktop sector, but it's still quite ubiquitous in embedded-land.
Yeah, but lots of people mistakenly believe that desktop PCs
contain a significant percentage of the world's microprocessors.
And if I'm not mistaken, the world's most common processor
architecture, and the one rolling out of chip fabs in the largest
quantities per day, is 8051. This was definitely the case three or
four years ago...and while I haven't seen current statistics, it's
not likely to have changed since then.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL