From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] I appear to have stumped the brains at chacha.com
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:15:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <088d5c48f3a1c595bde74a78ea39187b@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10710161025g11cb759apab7d4642f5ee205a@mail.gmail.com>
> a simple question: how many microrprocessors are there in the world?
>
> Let's restrict to 32 bits +mmu
assuming you mean real not virtual processors.
World population is 6.5B. Optimistically 25% can afford any
electronics with 32bit processors (i.e. percentage not preoccupied
solely with survival and bare necessities). Roughly 1.6B. Some have
many (pc, laptop, pda, camera, mobiles); if on the average each person
has 2 - including those collecting dust in the closet - that's 3.2B.
It jibes with the estimated total number of mobile subscribers
(about 2.6B) worldwide.
wouldn't manufacturers keep track of unit production?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 17:25 ron minnich
2007-10-16 18:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-16 18:15 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-16 19:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-16 19:56 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-16 18:16 ` ron minnich
2007-10-16 18:17 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-16 18:26 ` ron minnich
2007-10-16 19:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2007-10-16 19:59 ` Bakul Shah
2007-10-17 1:47 ` Jack Johnson
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