14 ms·

do you have a source on this? I'm curious to know more about the ARM processor market. Is AMD the leader over Intel? Who is the market dominator in this niche?

• vidarh 10y ago
  ARM CPUs outsell Intel by well over an order of magnitude or more in terms of number of CPUs, but Intel absolutely crush ARM Holdings in terms of revenue. In fact, at least PPC and MIPS (at least as of a couple of years ago) are also in the running for 2nd and 3rd largest CPU architecture in termsof number of CPUs - but as with ARM they're dwarfed by Intel in terms of revenue, as all three have a licensing model and target markets with much lower price per unit than what Intel does. There are other potential architectures up there, though primarily used as microcontrollers, but getting accurate numbers is very hard.
  • deepnotderp 10y ago
    I suspect the aggregate revenue of arm chips is greater than Intel, but it's fragmented and hard to track
    • vidarh 10y ago
      Given the massive volume difference it's possible you're right. Getting reliable numbers for the CPU market in general is annoyingly hard. I'd really like to see how the numbers for PPC and MIPS are developing. Also older CPUs that are now treated as microcontrollers, like Z80 and 6502 descendants. Western Design Centre has a statement about annual volume in the hundres of millions for 6502 descendants on their website [1], which if true means it's somewhere in the same region as MIPS, PPC and x86 for one of the top 4-5 spots after ARM. [1] http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/ http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/