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Guess. "Indeed, in 2014 -- 42 years after Intel’s rollout of the 8008 -- the godfather of microcontrollers accounted for 39.7% of overall sales revenues in the
by chasil 5y ago
Guess.
"Indeed, in 2014 -- 42 years after Intel’s rollout of the 8008 -- the godfather of microcontrollers accounted for 39.7% of overall sales revenues in the MCU market... That’s more than 32-bit devices (38.5%) and 16-bitters (21.8%), which grabbed most of the headlines."
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/why-8-bit-microcontrollers-refuse-go-away https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/why-8-bit-microc...
- oblio 5y ago1. How many people connect to shells on those microcontrollers? 2. How many people actually develop for those microcontrollers? The numbers of devices doesn't matter. Exaggerating a bit, if you have 100 folks developing for 50 billion devices and 10 million developing for 10 billion devices, we will always optimize for the development experience of the 10 million developers, not the 100. I'm quite convinced (based on job board statistics) that embedded developers are a minority. And that's not even counting sysadmins, devops, testers, etc, in which case the community outside of embedded completely dwarfs the embedded community.