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

[Luther Johnson]

and coffee makers, microwave ovens, automobile engine controllers, 
there's not much in the embedded world that is not ARM these days, of 
course RISC V wants to make zero-licensing cost inroads there

On 05/27/2025 07:19 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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> network switches, etc.
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> On 05/27/2025 07:18 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>> and wireless devices, hot spots ...
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>> On 05/27/2025 07:16 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> There are tiny ARM processors in SD cards.
>>>>
>>>> On 05/27/2025 03:42 PM, sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
>>>>> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
>>>>> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>>>>>
>>>>> mailto:sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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