December 16th, 2004
30% of all new car warranty issues are microprocessor-related
ABI Research predicts that evolved complexity of automobile engine management systems will require the carmakers to move to the 32-bit microprocessors. Emerging countries will still be able to use 16-bit, but by 2010, nearly all engines in the US will be using 32-bit microcontrollers. Approximately 30% of all warranty issues today are software and silicon-related.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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