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You're either very confused or willingly attempting to spread "fragmentation" style FUD.

The 10b+ cores by December 2022 were fabricated and deployed physical cores inside physical chips, brucehoult was responding to your non-sourced "There are 100 billion embedded ARM processors in operation" statement.

Of course this number is much larger now, as RISC-V adoption has exploded. RISC-V is not a fad that will go away overnight. It has long entrenched itself very deeply in this industry.