Re: I once actually learned something from this group

Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> aku ankka wrote:
>>> Well, the issue of "how terrible it is that we are locked in to X86"
>>> keeps coming-up.
>>
>> Forgot also that x86 isn't the best selling processor on the market..
>> just on laptops and desktops, I recall seeing that the ARM and such
>> sell a lot more units. Could be wrong.. anyone cares to contest that?
>
> The ARM is the basis of most cellphones, so just by that platform
> alone it is the biggest selling chip architecture family. However,
> that does not mean that it is the architecture with the most
> applications. X86 architecture has the most, likely followed by the
> Sparc architecture. For that matter most general purpose processor
> architectures have more applications than the ARM, because ARM is used
> with a lot of proprietary platforms,

I understand from one of my colleagues that at least one the hearing
aid companies use ARM as their DSP platform.


Kai
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Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp(at)harrekilde(dot)dk>