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Revisited: Question of the Month: Which processor architecture will dominate the market in a decade?

dychen
dychen over 2 years ago

e14 Question of the Month

Embedded hardware and computing has changed a great deal within the last 10 years, and with the latest hardware revisions, Moore's law being contested, and the rise of mobile computing. Embedded software and hardware architectures are really in flux. We are not even commenting on the attempted purchase of Arm ltd or what graphical processing units those system on a chips will use in the future!

Now, imagine that you are ten years into the future. Which embedded processor architecture will command the market: the status quo or something not yet discovered? Will it be NVIDIA with their artificial intelligence focused processors?

Take our poll and let us know which architecture you think will dominate embedded engineering in a decade, and if you disagree with the options presented, please tell us why in the Comments section below!

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 2 years ago +4
    Anyone read "Chip War" by Chris Miller? It is a very, very high-level account of chip history, but it is written fairly recently so has a contemporary perspective. Quite an interesting book and it contains…
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 2 years ago +1
    Can FPGA's be slipped in as a response to this question?
  • dougw
    dougw over 2 years ago in reply to colporteur +1
    FPGAs can include ARM or RISC-V. Were you thinking of a different processor core?
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    colporteur over 2 years ago

    Can FPGA's be slipped in as a response to this question?

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    dougw over 2 years ago in reply to colporteur

    FPGAs can include ARM or RISC-V. Were you thinking of a different processor core?

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    dougw over 2 years ago in reply to colporteur

    FPGAs can include ARM or RISC-V. Were you thinking of a different processor core?

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    colporteur over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

    No ,the underlying cores not with standing. What is happening in this space is profound.

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  • bradfordmiller
    bradfordmiller over 2 years ago in reply to colporteur

    Agreed. The most popular architecture will be dynamically reconfigurable.

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 2 years ago in reply to bradfordmiller

    The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that FPGA will not be the dominant architecture. Despite their usefulness they typically use 10x the silicon to achieve a given result (compared with a one purpose device like a processor ).

    I think we might see a more micros with a bit of FPGA added on the side.

    MK

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  • bradfordmiller
    bradfordmiller over 2 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    I’m specifically thinking of security. Every architecture has yet another security flaw, and particularly for embedded, the ability to modify the computational architecture will become critical in the cyberwars.

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  • charlieo21
    charlieo21 over 2 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    Today you can find FPGAs with integrated MCUs. Someone has to the opposite, an MCU with an integrated FPGA.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 2 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    I think you are right about the inefficiency. Do you think the industry will go back to automating the conversion of FPGA "prototypes" to custom optimized chips?

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