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<p>and wireless devices, hot spots ... <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/27/2025 07:16 PM, Luther Johnson
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<p>and thumb (USB) drives, and power banks, and probably anything
you can connect via USB, like keyboards<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/27/2025 07:13 PM, Luther
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<p>There are tiny ARM processors in SD cards.</p>
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inline !important;">Everyone forgets about embedded
systems. When I was still noodling, there were
several RTOSes that were POSIX-certified (QNX and
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>anyone
on list know where all the ARM ‘CPUs’ (cores or multi-core
chips?) get used?</div>
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<div>ARM, as the licenser, declared it licensed 250B “CPUs”
in 2024.</div>
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<div>We know 1-2B go into smartphones, perhaps another 250M
into PC-like devices (250M is approx PC market)</div>
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<div>Where do the rest go?</div>
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<div>I’ve read some HDD’s use ARM processors, so a few billion
there perhaps.</div>
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