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The high integration and specialized features that characterize MPU class processor devices make them more efficient and thus more cost-effective than general purpose processors in many of these applications.

Also of value is that MPUs are sufficiently general as processors (they can run standard [[Linux]] [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]] or lightweight simple [[Execution (computers)|executives]]) so that one MPU based computer design can address a wide selection of the applications listed above using only different software loads. This reduces the number of different module types that are needed in a product line addressing both control and packet processing network functions. This has the result of, reducing development volumescosts as well asand inventory volumes.