&gt; Embedded computing is still huge and has drastically different performance requirements<p>Even chips as small Cortex-M4 has a write buffer, 3-stage pipeline and branch speculation. And real embedded computing is more and more utilizing hardware similar to desktop&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;server. You can&#x27;t run self-driving car &#x2F; neural networks &#x2F; image processing on a single threaded CPU with no cache or branch prediction.