There is considerable interest in the ARM Cortex platform today because ARM devices are found everywhere. Units containing ARM devices range from the small microcontroller embedded systems to cellphones and larger servers running Linux. Soon, ARM will also be present in higher numbers in the data center. These are all good reasons to become familiar with ARM technology.
Even with the threat of the emerging RISC-V standard, there are still reasons why the ARM platform will continue to be important. RISC-V is new ...