Parallax Propeller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller

http://www.parallax.com/Store/Microcontrollers/PropellerChips/tabid/142/CategoryID/18/List/0/SortField/0/Level/a/ProductID/332/Default.aspx

Proprietary filth.

There is also a movement in place to put the JVM on Propeller
JVM in 32KB of memory. Awwwww yea!

>>3
You can run Java on smart cards, so that's not a problem.

>>4
Java is the problem there.

Wow! Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

>>6
A Beowulf cluster of SIM cards? Should be pretty impressive.

In fact, I think that would be a perfect idea for a cyberpunk setting. The protagonist figures out where some mysterious server is physically located. It's in the slums, he gets on the third floor, double-checks the flaked into indecipherableness door number plaque against neighbouring doors, picks the lock. Beyond is a small, dusty room crowded with cupboards and filing cabinets of varying sizes, shapes and states of decrepitude, each drawer filled to the brim with horizontal stacks of expired credit cards, discarded SIM cards etc, carefully spaced and connected with almost invisible, spidersilk-thin wire.

>>1
http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/GA144.htm

Those have 144 stack machines each faster than the whole propeller chip.

>>2
Other than Loongson everything is proprietary in chipland.

>>5
In fact, Java is a problem seeking a solution.

>>9
Good luck with that.

>>11
thanks, the thing is already available from schmartboard,
http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products_csp&id=532

Problem is their ide is an obscure piece of programmer wizardy, not ready to be understood right away. Common folks even need to change it from the default dorvak to standard layout.

But the chip itself remains the most badass microcontroller I've heard of.

>>9
Great, now you can implement Java in Forth.

>>9
Proprietary shit.