The most defensible answer is: you can’t reliably infer a sold-unit count from “Samsung chips” and “Windows CE” alone. The evidence you have only shows that Windows CE was widely used in retail devices and POS-related embedded systems, not how many Samsung-based POS terminals were actually sold.

What the sources suggest

  • Windows CE was common in retail handheld and embedded devices, including POS-adjacent equipment, because it was designed for low-power, device-specific systems.
  • Samsung’s retail messaging shows a transition away from Windows CE toward Android-based enterprise devices, which implies Windows CE had already been a significant legacy platform in stores.
  • One older industry study says Windows-based POS terminals made up nearly 76 percent of shipments in 2008, with WEPOS and Windows XP Embedded terminals at 34 percent. That points to scale, but it does not isolate Samsung hardware or prove a total sold count.

Practical estimate

If you’re trying to estimate “how many POS terminals might have been sold,” the honest range is likely in the hundreds of thousands to millions over the Windows CE era , but there is not enough public evidence here to turn that into a precise figure for Samsung-branded terminals.

Why the estimate is shaky

  • “Samsung chips” is too broad: it could mean chipsets inside many device types, not just POS terminals.
  • “Windows CE OS” covers a wide embedded-device market, not only POS terminals.
  • Public sources rarely publish a single clean count for “Samsung + Windows CE POS terminals sold,” so any exact number would be speculative.

Best-supported takeaway

A reasonable forum-style answer would be: a lot, but not precisely knowable from those clues alone. The strongest factual anchor is that Windows-based POS terminals were already dominant in some retail shipment segments, and Samsung later positioned its retail devices as successors to that Windows CE era.

If you want, I can turn this into a tighter forum reply or a more skeptical fact-check style answer.