Chips will never run java/vb/C++ natively. Chips execute instructions, and those languages contain constructs which are not instructions. See a great discussi

Chips will never run java/vb/C++ natively. Chips execute instructions, and those languages contain constructs which are not instructions. See a great discussion at http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/14527/any-programmable-devices-available-for-more-modern-languages http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/14527/any-pro... (The Java demo you saw was probably Jazelle, which is a processor module on ARM chips that runs (some) Java assembly language instructions natively, instead of using a virtualized processor. That's possible for a lot of VM-based languages, but it's not running Java.