[TUHS] Whither Workstations? (Was Re: Demise of AT&T)

sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Wed May 28 08:42:57 AEST 2025



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