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September 22, 2011

It fascinates me when we ship pr

by Amelia Dalton

It fascinates me when we ship products in numbers that exceed the number of humans on the planet. The stats you’re giving mean that the average man, woman, and child in the western world probably has a double-digit number of microcontrollers.

Most of them don’t even know they have any at all.

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