• Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
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    zerohour wrote:
    Fair play IBM may support Power Architecture but in a server environment which is all IBM do now... The days of PPC as a viable desktop is no longer seen as a great option.

    As for Freescale has been sinking for a long time.

    Basically what I am trying to say is yep as a processor it may still hold value in embedded systems, but its mainstream run is pretty much pushing up the daisies :)


    Funny, because the Freescale e6500 core is used in processors that can run more threads than any Intel cpu.
    Frescale's focus is on communications related applications, but they have not written off SBC applications.
    And IBM's focus on Power8 doesn't limit that cpu to servers.

    As an alternate to X64, only ARM is more common, and that has only recently adopted features PPC have had for a decade (64 bit operation, fast speeds, etc).

    And, try and remember WE aren't "mainstream" either.
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