Comments on: ARM A15: A Game Changer

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:45:46 +0000

ARM is also used for many embedded controllers, for USB drives, SD cards, NICs, WLAN chips, etc. Really everywhere. Though some use MIPS, homebrew, 8 bit (seems some chinese MP3/MP4 players run on a many-MHz Z80).

I have no clue what the firmware of a hard drive runs on, but it is a lot of code, has its own OS (the 1TB seagate drives that broke due to a bug could be revived by connecting a serial cable to a console connector…) and thus needs a good compiler. Which probably means GCC.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:03:35 +0000

I’m curious about the Google reference. I though they were using x86 for their servers?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:20:55 +0000

Looks like ARM is the only part of the old Acorn Computing to make a profit and become a company known worldwide.

Shame none of the new chips will be running RISC OS.

By: Jamie Bennett

Jamie Bennett — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:38:11 +0000

Dragonball, PowerPC , and now we are about to see Intel based phones. Newer phones at the moment will more than likely have an ARM chip though.

By: example

example — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:17:49 +0000

what do the other cell phones run on?