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Which embedded systems customer cares about the cpu architecture? You need x86 when you need Windows Software. Or still for some macOS software. But if you de
by andix 5y ago
Which embedded systems customer cares about the cpu architecture?
You need x86 when you need Windows Software. Or still for some macOS software.
But if you develop a set driving car for example, you just compile your code for the architecture of your SoC. And if you switch architecture you invest a few weeks to port it.
- Mindwipe 5y agoThere are a non-trivial amount of embedded systems that are running Windows, so them. ATMs seem an obvious choice - lots are running on Windows underneath, but might well want custom security elements in the silicon.
- leeter 5y agoOr OS2 (ATMs) or DOS (an unbelievable number of PoS devices and other 'business ops' uses as well as industrial). Now to be fair... most of that market is already served by a vendor that doesn't make desktop CPUs most notably DM&P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86
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- andix 5y agoATMs are still using windows, because they are old. A lot of them have CRT screens. If they would switch to a new hardware platform, I’m quite sure nobody would ever pick Windows again. So maybe they will still do clones of the existing ones (on standard x86 hardware). But then they don‘t need new chips.