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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
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Subject: Re: Re: 8 bit microprocessor popularity
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 18:51:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 18:51:23 1986
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> > "Despite the attention given to the emerging battle for leadership
> > in the 32-bit microprocessor race, the 12-year-old 8-bit micro still
> > takes the lion's share of the microprocessor unit market.  More than
> > 85% of the microprocessor chips shipped last year were the 8-bit
> > variety, and their sales revenue equaled the total for the higher-
> > priced 16- and 32-bit chips."
> >   From Electronics, Jan. 6, 1986
> > They go on to discuss the popularity of the 8-bit chips in a variety
> > of applications (including cellular phones and industrial control) and
> > suggest that the popularity hasn't peaked yet!  (They estimate the world
> > microprocessor chip market for 1986 as $2+ billion.
> 
> 
> Common sense would tend to indicate that each year there will be more
> consumer products (i.e. telephones, t.v.'s, stereos, etc.) that require
> computing power in the 8-bit or lower range than high powered personal 
> work stations that use the 16 or 32-bitters.  Sure IBM and associated clones
> sold a million computers last year, contrast that with the number of
> the above consumer products.

also, doesn't IBM ship an 8-bit 8042 microcomputer (for the keyboard controller)
with every 286 they ship in the PC-AT?  They're everywhere!
-- 
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answer to something...

Ken Shoemaker, Microprocessor Design, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Ca.
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