On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:31:10 +0300 Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel <firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2/2/21 12:16 PM, Paul Reeves wrote: > > I doubt that our user base for 32-bit ARM is really very significant but > > 32-bit ARM chips probably have a good future ahead of them. > > Not sure. I visited eShop - only 46 cheap-most phones of 616 have 32-bit > CPUs. And they use chips developed in 2014. All the rest are at least > Cortex-A53. Actually, I wasn't thinking about phones. I was thinking more on the lines of the early Raspberries. And there are many more similar products such as Arduino. These 32-bit processor designs can have h/w costs that are almost in pennies, not dollars. That market is only going to get bigger. But as I said, we don't really have much of a user base there. At least at the moment. tl;dr - 32-bit x86 is more or less dead but 32-bit processors will be around for some time to come. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
