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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (136892)	5/13/2001 6:57:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580271

You have to remember that embedded ranges from "zero cost", the extremely high volume like toasters and light switches, to "zero volume" like what the military uses on ships and airplanes. The closer you get to "zero cost", the more important things like these parts are. At a guess I would say that currently these chips aren't all that important. Are you saying that because they cost too much or because currently, they are not used extensively in light switches, toasters etal.? But the future is very, very bright. Depending on the temperature profile, they could find a market in every automobile. Don't think PDA's, think next gen. cell phones. Eventually, think blenders and microwaves... So when normal appliances get more sophisticated these are the components or circuits that will be used heavily to run them? Right now, they are good only for lap tops and cellphones? ted