Stan Hoeppner writes: > No, I mean millions [of ARM cpus]. One billion chips per year would > equal 1 for every 7 humans on the planet, and that's simply > impossible. Over 3 billion people have never used an electronic > device. That's almost half the Earth's population. Do the math. >From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture>: In 2005 about 98% of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year used at least one ARM processor. ... ARM licensed about 1.6 billion cores in 2005. In 2005, about 1 billion ARM cores went into mobile phones.[13] By January 2008, over 10 billion ARM cores had been built, and in 2008 iSuppli predicted that by 2011, 5 billion ARM cores will be shipping per year.[14] As of January 2011, ARM stated that over 15 billion ARM processors have shipped.[15]
> ...if you're an exec at ARM, would you consider such a push viable? > Let alone profitable? No, you wouldn't. ARM doesn't manufacture anything. They license their designs and patents. A few of the licensees: Analog Devices, AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Energy Micro, Faraday Technology, Freescale, Fujitsu, Intel (through its settlement with Digital Equipment Corporation), IBM, Infineon Technologies, Marvell Technology Group, Nintendo, Nvidia, NXP Semiconductors, OKI, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sharp, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments There are many more. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hapcgllt....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
