embedded systems crisis

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this was posted at the GN site today. interesting lady with a very impressive bio. pretty interesting stuff. do any among you contest the data?

this is her bio: http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/y2kconf/bios/gordon.htm

this is part II of her paper: http://www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon/embedded.html this is the location on the GN site: http://www.prorege.com/north/3995.html

-- Anonymous, March 01, 1999

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I don't contest it, I just wish she had found some fresh examples. The ones she references are pretty stale from my point of view.

Her numbers are conservative, as mentioned in previous posts there have been roughly 4 billion embedded microprocessors shipped each year for the last three years so that's 12 billion right there. If you figure a conservative 30% annual growth and run the trend backwards to 1978 the number is over 25 billion MCUs/MPUs.

--aj

-- Anonymous, March 02, 1999


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