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Any plans to support x86 CPUs?

No plans for x86 at this time. What application do you have in mind, and what OS would it be running? In our experience even embedded linux projects run on ARM these days.

Probably not your main target audience but I'm thinking of old industrial automation systems that run Windows for the UI together with a real-time software PLC (Siemens or something similar). Hard to find good tools for debugging them.

It would be interesting to chat with someone working on that set up to figure out what an implementation could look like.

I wonder if solutions for windows desktop would work in that case?

See https://backtrace.io, disclaimer, previous employee.

I'm curious as well why you'd be using x86 processors in embedded devices. Care to share?

(Also not the parent) I've seen this in robotics; a lot of code in that space has been tested for a long time on x86 computers [^1], and only more recently been looked at on ARM.

I think this is also common in industrial embedded systems, since I periodically see ads to buy hardware for them [^2]. I'm not entirely sure why :).

[^1]: http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/TurtleBot/Robot%20Setup [^2]: https://www.logicsupply.com/computers/nuc/

Not the parent, but they can be nice for com express modules. Upgrade the SOM board without having to do an I/O board spin.

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