Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12281 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.