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Wrong info
December 10, 2007 by Anonymous, 1 year 49 weeks ago
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Well, if you are going to quote figures...at least be correct. The X86 architecture did NOT just recently pass 100 million. In 2007 ALONE, there were 257.5 MILLION PCs sold worldwide and OVER 90% of those PCs sold are based on the X86 architecture.
Over 90% of the world's PCs and servers use X86
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584-6172745.html
Worldwide PC shipments increased to 257.5 million in 2007
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11928/pc-shipments-increase-...
The installed base of Internet users (internet or not) is well over 1 Billion.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
again...over 90% of those users are on X86 machines
There are over 2 billion cell phones in use in the world...however, they are based on several different CPU architectures, plus there are older phones still in use in many developing countries that are based on proprietary chips that aren't even in use any more. (Unlike old PCs which were STILL X86 based.)
Based on almost 1/4 of a billion X86 machines shipped in 2007, seems pretty obvious that in the DECADES of X86 processors being on the market, they passed a BILLION a long time ago, much less 100 million.
Cell phones, while great devices for communication and an ever increasing number of multimedia functions are still not "General computing" devices, which is what this processor is supposed to be.