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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Since computers for public consumption are no longer using this architecture
    > (except for embedded market products and tiny niche markets), is there any
    > chance that new (probably embedded) products might be produced that can
    > be converted for use as a general purpose computer by people wanting to run
    > MorphOS on such hardware?

    Maybe this fresh initiative will amount to something:

    http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1663183

    > If the price is low, perhaps the Chinese will choose to create something
    > that is not tied to x86 & Windows and see the benefits of having a scalable
    > architecture like this one, that can perhaps be used for low power/low cost
    > user systems, yet scale up to workstation, or even super computer power.

    The Chinese have already announced their own Power Architecture chips, so I guess for "low power/low cost user systems" they will rather use those than Freescale's chips.
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