They're used in practically everything. Your car has several dozen RISC-based processors - in the ECU, the ABS controller, the airbag controller, the in-car entertainment etc etc. The modern world rests on the backs of Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber.
>>28425 >I saw ads like these, and the booth babes from E3 articles, and it honestly made me feel like an alien. As a child I didn’t fully understand why it made me uncomfortable, but I do remember internalising this idea that “if this is what women are, then what am I? I don’t want to be like this when I grow up!”
I have seen mountains of material depicting sexuality, men, and masculinity that I've found alienating, especially when I was younger and didn't fully understand it. It doesn't mean I'd want to preclude a community of people from enjoying it, as an adult. I can vocally criticise it, if I choose to. I also try to allow for the scope that I've misinterpreted it, that I was exposed to it too early, or that I've missed something that others see in it. I don't think we should be labelling any bit of media or art or expression as categorically "unacceptable", whether it's formally banned or not.
Not exactly a novel debate to be having nowadays, I know.
I took apart my dishwasher's circuit board unit the other day to fix a broken push button, and it turned out the dishwasher is powered by a ST Microelectronics STM32F101. That's a 32-bit ARM Cortex M3-based RISC MCU with 36 MHz. Which all seems a bit overkill just to control a dishwasher with a few buttons and a seven-segment LED display.
Then again, they seem to be going for six quid a piece these days, probably half that if you buy in bulk. And I've built loads of Arduino-based ATmega and ESP32 circuits myself, so I know it's nice to be free of the constraints of less powerful MCUs.
