26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
7:23 p.m.
On 26/01/2010 18:18, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:17 AM, geoffrey oltmans wrote:
Nope, its ARM, or at least ARM cores, as far as data I can find
supports. And MIPS is second. I don't have the figures here at home,
but I researched it at work for a computer architecture class I helped
with a couple of years ago. Have you got any figures for 8051, because
it would be interesting to compare?
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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.