Embedded Systems Developers Plan to Migrate to Intel Architecture

A majority of developers working on embedded systems in North America and the Asia Pacific regions are planning to migrate to a different hardware architecture, according to Evans Data.

Besides, Evans Data Corp's (News - Alert) new Global Development Survey, a worldwide survey of over 1300 software developers published last month, finds that a majority of embedded system developers in the North America (29 percent) and Asia Pacific (34 percent) would target Intel as the maker of the hardware architecture.

A majority of embedded systems developers in the EMEA region (Europe Middle East and Africa) did not plan to migrate. For the EMEA region, ARM (News - Alert) was the most cited planned architecture and 27 percent voters said they would be migrating to ARM.

“ARM's strength is in Europe where they have long cultivated a strong following of developers,” said Janel Garvin (News - Alert), CEO of Evans Data Corp, in a statement. “Intel has the edge in North America, and has apparently swept the fast growing Asia-Pacific region, where we actually see the stronger intentions for Intel (News - Alert) adoption than in any other region.”

IBM is also recognized by developers as a likely migration target for embedded systems and places second in every region.

The Global Development Survey is conducted twice a year and focuses on a range of subjects, such as platforms, languages, embedded systems, mobile development, APIs, and other development topics.

According to the annual survey, 27 percent of North American developers are using HTML5 and another 48.9 percent intend to. Almost half (48.8percent) of developers in the APAC region plan to target mobile device screens, while Java is considered the top mash-up language in EMEA with over 30percent may be opting for it.