POS as in Point of Sale? Dave
On 15 Apr 2013, at 14:16, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > M: +37129426328 IRC: ototo Skype: serge.broslavsky > http://linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
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