I forgot to mention PowerPC. Although well known for Apple it's almost dead in the water in that space, however it will still hold part of the embedded space, smaller PPC processors are also RISC and similar to ARM although ARM is taking over that space rapidly and I wouldn't be surprised if PPC became a thing of the past. On smaller PPC system you have all the same problems like in development on ARM if not more challenging. On larger systems, who will use them if Apple doesn't? Not many. IBM may try to push PPC into new spaces but I don't think they will get very far. -- Doug
