At our lecture on Thursday our lecturer, Paul, was telling us about a company named ARM. ARM make processors like Intel do. However ARM do not do their marketing in the same way Intel do, mostly because they don’t need to. ARM’s goal is to have one of their processors in every device. Quite a huge goal… and just maybe they’ll do it! Many devices already use them and you wouldn’t even know. ARM processors have the advantage of being able to be produced in older factories – whereas Intel chips have to be created in state-of-the-art facilities.
Whilst doing some research for my presentation this week, I came across the weirdest thing. A Japanese toilet manufacturer uses ARM processors in their toilets!
- picture from http://www.arm.com/markets/embedded_solutions/armpp/9931.html
The toilet includes an MP3 player which can load songs from SD cards.