From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] I appear to have stumped the brains at chacha.com 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:25:53 PDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:59:08 -0700
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> a simple question: how many microrprocessors are there in the world?

Dead or alive?  In use or ever made?

Why do you want to know?

According to ITU the world had 640M PCs in 2003 and 772M PCs
n 2004.  But I think their numbers are conservative.  India
for instance grew from 9.3M to 13M in a year and they both
seem rather low.  China grew from 50M to 53M and the growth
rate seems very low.  Elsewhere I read China's computer
numbers double every two years.  And I am sure so does
India's.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/internet04.pdf

Though overall 1 computer for every 8 or 10 people "feels"
about right.

> Let's restrict to 32 bits +mmu

> Anybody want to guess? I can guess, but I am sure I am wrong.
> 
> Don't forget to count all the camcorders.

Camcorders have MMUs these days?

Probably there are more cpus in cellphones than anything else
but no mmu for most of them.

Perhaps chacha is going senile....