When asked the question "What is the best selling microprocessor? "Generally gets the answer: the Pentium with 92% market share. This answer is wrong because pentium actually represent 2% of the processors sold worldwide. What is the cause of the wrong answer? It is because if the pentium dominate the market for visible computers (desktop, laptops and workstations), these computers are only the visible part of the iceberg, and the overwhelming majority of processors are used in invisible computer systems called "embedded systems".
This figure shows the current examples of embedded systems
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