network switches, etc.

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@canb.auug.org.au wrote:

On 28 May 2025, at 00:52, Stuff Received <stuff@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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