VDC Counts 4 Billion Embedded Products Shipped in 2006

Read Venture Development Corporations OnTarget Blog for more details. But in a nutshell, in the last year for which data are available, VDC estimates 4 billion total units of embedded products, most without a commercial operating system inside. By other estimates, total CPU shipments in 2006 were around 9 billion, but some of those are PCs/Macs and there are also numerous systems containing two or more CPUs.