I was considering the pi the question is though is it powerful enough to
perform necessary calculations one might find in a pos system


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Serge Broslavsky <
serge.broslav...@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hello Jonathan,
>
> On 13.04.13 08:26 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > From my research I gather arm is just an architecture or chip producer as
> > well? As i have a project, that might do sufficiently running on a dev
> > board, or even a custom developed arm based board.
>
> This is what Wikipedia (a great source of information) says:
>
>     Business model
>
>     Unlike other microprocessor corporations such as AMD, Intel,
>     Freescale (formerly Motorola) and Renesas (formerly Hitachi and
>     Mitsubishi Electric), ARM only licenses its technology as
>     intellectual property (IP), rather than manufacturing its own CPUs.
>     Thus, there are a few dozen companies making processors based on
>     ARM's designs. Intel, Samsung,[29] Texas Instruments, Analog
>     Devices, Atmel, Freescale, Nvidia, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics and
>     Renesas have all licensed ARM technology. In the fourth quarter of
>     2010, 1.8 billion chips based on an ARM design were
>     manufactured.
>
>
> > I have been trying to find a contact email at arm but to no avail. Any
> help
> > and information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> If you're trying to find some inexpensive ARM-based board for your
> project, without having any additional information from you, I'd
> recommend you starting with a Raspberry Pi [1].
>
>
> Links:
> [1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Serge Broslavsky <serge.broslav...@linaro.org>
>
> Project Manager, Linaro
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>



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