Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12126 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> if new PPC architecture never makes it to motherboards used for mainstraim
> desktop-like hardware... eventually a choice has to be made at some point.
True, that's a given.
> what do they call high performerance ?
That's the question to ask, yes. I already stated my
stance some days ago.
> I doubt it very much the Chinese suddenly have
> a ppc chip that is an innovation
Mind you, innovation can not only refer to performance but also to power consumption, manufacturing costs and other things.
> more likely a slightly altered copy.... as usual.
But a *legal* "copy" in this case ;-) I'm eager to know whether they've developed new Power ISA compliant cores or if they just licensed existing Power ISA cores (like Applied Micro and LSI did with IBM's PPC4xx) and built their own SoCs around them.