Death, Taxes and Intel
Three things are certain in the engineer’s life: death, taxes, and Intel dominance.
One of those is not actually true. Although “Intel” is the name that comes to mind when the topic turns to microprocessors, the company’s famous chips account for barely 2% of all the microprocessor and microcontroller chips sold each year. (That’s counting units, not dollar value. The revenue picture is quite different.) The other 98% of the world’s microprocessors all come from somewhere else.
ARM, for example, creates at least five times more 32 … Read More → "Death, Taxes and Intel"