STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android

Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by zokier on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:21PM (#19220673)

> ST is quite probably the market leader for embedded micros (though NXP may be getting there).

This report from 2016 puts NXP at twice the marketshare over STmicro who are sitting steadily in the fifth place:

https://epsnews.com/2017/05/01/nxp-tops-microcontroller-supp...

Although at least part of the sales volume difference can be explained by NXP having had more expensive i.MX range available (and others), so in terms of chips sold they might be closer to each other.

> This combined A7+M4 device is unusual

I'm not sure if I'd say that, previously NXP did the exact same thing with i.MX7, and TI with their AM5x. And of course don't forget the classic AM3x which had PRUs filling part of the same role.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by rnestler on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:49AM (#19223794)

> This report from 2016 puts NXP at twice the marketshare over STmicro who are sitting steadily in the fifth place:

To be fair that is largely because they aqquired Freescale, the year before they had almost the same market share.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by monocasa on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:11PM (#19221540)

> I'm not sure if I'd say that, previously NXP did the exact same thing with i.MX7

And before that, they had their Vybrid line that's a A5 paired with an M4.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by solarkraft on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:28PM (#19220728)

I can anecdotally say that I'm hearing a lot more about STMs than about NXP microcontrollers.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by ballooney on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:49PM (#19221332)

Hobbyists and tinkerers like us are somewhere between completely irrevelevent and mostly irrevelent when it comes to market share.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by stefan_ on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:48PM (#19220867)

Because you're in the wrong industry. Very big in automotive.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by rvense on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:32AM (#19224341)

I take apart prosumer audio/music gear quite often, and STM32s seem quite popular there. Not sure where that is in volume, though.

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Re:STMicro MPU Supports Linux and Android by Matthias247 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:57PM (#19222996)

Likely true. In Automotive and likely also some other industries also Renesas is huge. However in hobby circles one never hears about them.

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