ARM about to be sold

Hi, Dimiter.

I've just looked up your website. Well, that's a way to name a company! :-)

Gene

Trust me; there is nearly no correlation between actual intelligence and wealth beyond a certain basic level.

Really rich people treat a certain insouciance about the facts of reality as a luxury good. There is a thing called "rational ignorance" and they use it.

Any billionaire alive has a long history of business dumpster fires; (s)he just happened to luck into either fewer of them or a suite of them that were less severe. Or they bought the right land at the right price at the right time.

I'll make an exception for people like Micheal Burry ( the "hero" of "The Big Short" because he's an Aspie and just did the heavy lifting.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive - it just gets you stuck in deeper mud.

ARM64 should have quite a market for it. This assuming that smartphones (aka "computers for people who don't want or need a computer" ) don't just eat the entirety of all electronics markets.

Thanks Gene, I made up the name way back in my 20-s (79-a was the first reference to it IIRC), in the middle of the communistic times when talking about your own company would be seen as a diagnosis - so I suppose I put some humour/self irony into it then. Ever since I have been working as hard as I can to live up to the name though - so much about humour...

Dimiter

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This statement makes your previous comments much more clear.

Of course so. But I think the claim was about the first derivative :-). I.e. it is not about being wealthy, it is about getting there from say average. This takes some basic prerequisites and of course loads of luck.

Yes but its register model and being a load/store machine just mean it cannot maintain a full pipeline of reasonable size. So it is OK for low power applications where processing speed is not too important (still a huge market, the "low power" got them into the phone market initially anyway I guess).

I don't know if ARM64 brings anything which 64 bit power does not. Lower power - not so sure about that though I have never looked into it, if it is a pipelined 64 bit machine with all the registers and MMU etc. where will the savings come from.

Dimiter

Just being basically wealthy just takes sustained effort. Luck helps a lot.

There is a whale of a lot (in the soft-realtime space ) you can do with RasPi/BBBlack class boards. I've yet to face trying to make one do hard realtime, but a tiered architecture with one of these as a comms concentrator solves a lot of problems.

Agreed, but PPC is not exactly flourishing.

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the BBBlack has 2 extra 200MHz cpus for real time things, though I have no idea how well it works

-Lasse

Yeah; the PRU(s). People use them it would seem. It's a bit daunting. I haven't yet. I'd have to, you know, buy one. :)

ARM64 brings along a company which knows how to build an ecosystem for today's hobbyists in the hope that they might become tomorrow's buyers and product recommendation experts.

That's an attribute totally missing from the Power world; I know as I looked for some low cost boards suitable for hobbyists a few years ago and found nothing.

Simon.