One big reservation I have about the Propeller is that it's so different to anything else available in the embedded systems market that if you developed an application for it you'd be locked into the platform with no practical way of porting it to another manufacturer's processors short of starting again from scratch. I also have some doubts about how fast it will be given the round-robin multiplexed fashion in which its cores access main memory. I suspect it will turn out to be excellent for rapid prototyping, one-offs, and hobbyists, but it's unlikely to make a significant dent in ARM, 8051, PIC, etc. sales for medium to high volume applications.
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Propeller chip
One big reservation I have about the Propeller is that it's so different to anything else available in the embedded systems market that if you developed an application for it you'd be locked into the platform with no practical way of porting it to another manufacturer's processors short of starting again from scratch. I also have some doubts about how fast it will be given the round-robin multiplexed fashion in which its cores access main memory. I suspect it will turn out to be excellent for rapid prototyping, one-offs, and hobbyists, but it's unlikely to make a significant dent in ARM, 8051, PIC, etc. sales for medium to high volume applications.
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