> Were it not for the explosion of mobile phones, they'd stay in the "nice but expensive for the performance" niche. s/smartphones/smarteverything/ Reportedly

> Were it not for the explosion of mobile phones, they'd stay in the "nice but expensive for the performance" niche. s/smartphones/smarteverything/ Reportedly only 1.5B phones have been sold in 2015, compared to 15B of ARM cores. There is apparently a huge market of small cheap ARM microcontrollers, to the point that I heard they are sometimes getting cheaper than simple 8bit micros.