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On 13 Jun 91 09:37:51 GMT, steved@lion.inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) said:

steved> Quoting from the RISC Management Newsletter 1/1/91

steved> RISC Processor Unit Shipments (000s)
steved> Processor             1989     1990     cum.
steved> transputer             190      240      540
steved> [ ... smaller figures for SPARC, Rx000, Am29K, ix60, ARM, M88K,
steved> CLIPPER omitted ... ]

Frankly, this newletter is crazy.

The Transputer is not by any stretch of the imagination a RISC system
(unless you define RISC == non CISC), and it is not, even more
importantly, a general purpose CPU like the other systems listed. To put
it into that league table is ridiculous.

On the other hand the figures confirm that the ARM is deservedly one of
the more popular RISC designs, and this is about as good for the
prestige of the UK design companies as anything.

The transputer *is* a success story, but not as a general purpose
processor, just as an high end embedded systems engine. In that market
it is not by any means the leader, but it is still significant.

So maybe it would be more interesting to see the figures for sales of
CPUs in the 32 bit embedded systems market, and to see it split between
CISC sales (32k, 68k, x86) and non-CISC (which is not by any means the
same as RISC) sales.
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