P111-6052 CONVERTEAM Advanced Micro Controller

The ARM architecture, formerly known as the Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Machine (Acorn RISC Machine), is a 32-bit Reduced instruction set (RISC) processor architecture that is widely used in many embedded system designs. However, there are also many achievements in other fields, because of the characteristics of energy saving, ARM processors are very suitable for mobile communication field, matching its main design goals for low-cost, high-performance, low power consumption characteristics. Supercomputers, on the other hand, consume a lot of power, and ARM is also seen as a more efficient option.
As of 2009, ARM processors accounted for 90% of all 32-bit embedded RISC processors on the market, making it one of the largest 32-bit architectures in the world. ARM processors can be found in many consumer electronics products, from portable devices (PDAs, mobile phones, multimedia players, handheld video games, and computers) to computer peripherals (hard drives, desktop routers), and even in military installations such as missile-borne computers. There are also extensions based on ARM designs, including Marvell’s XScale architecture and Texas Instruments’ OMAP family.
In 2011, ARM customers reported 7.9 billion ARM processor shipments, accounting for 95 percent of smartphones, 90 percent of hard drives, 40 percent of digital TVS and cartridges, 15 percent of microcontrollers, and 20 percent of mobile computers. In 2012, Microsoft produced a new Surface tablet with ARM Technologies, AMD announced that it would start producing 64-bit server chips based on ARM cores in 2014, and in 2016, Japan’s Fujitsu announced that its next-generation “Jing” supercomputer would use ARM architecture.

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