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Sure, if you think the world consists of cash transactions and whatever a car needs to think about.

• leonheld 1y ago
  If we're talking numbers, there are many, many more embedded systems than general purpose computers. And these are mostly built on ancient process nodes compared to the cutting edge we have today; the shiny octa-cores on our phones are supported by a myriad of ancilliary chips that are definitely not cutting edge.
  • ngangaga 1y ago
    We aren't talking numbers, though. Who cares about embedded? I mean that literally. This is computation invisible by design. If that were sufficient we wouldn't have smartphones.
    • rescbr 1y ago
      In a way, and for a long time, smartphones were/are defined as embedded devices. I still don't see how one can classify a smartphone as a general-purpose computing device, even though they have enough computing power as a laptop.