Comment Microprocessor on a Chip (Score 1) 12
Well, the first thing that popped into my feeble little brain was, this isn't really a new concept, it's just a faster version of an old concept. There have been microcontrollers around for years which included their own storage space onboard.
The article talks about it being an ASIC, not a general-purpose computing device, which must be why they're talking about it as targeted for embedded systems instead of the next generation of PC. Even so, I'd love to try one out on my little breadboard, hook it up to a keypad and see what it'll do!
Now what would be really cool is if they could throw in a Linux kernel in microcode (reminiscent of that microcontroller chip that has BASIC in microcode) so you could have "Linux on a chip"!
The article talks about it being an ASIC, not a general-purpose computing device, which must be why they're talking about it as targeted for embedded systems instead of the next generation of PC. Even so, I'd love to try one out on my little breadboard, hook it up to a keypad and see what it'll do!
Now what would be really cool is if they could throw in a Linux kernel in microcode (reminiscent of that microcontroller chip that has BASIC in microcode) so you could have "Linux on a chip"!
