> All your convergence box things is pretty 2000ish.
> Look for example to the new Samsung Galaxy S7. That's how the market evolves.,
I have to disagree, the market for smartphones and tablets is already saturated. Tablets and smartphones are the present and will soon be the past. The industry will find something else to sell to the customer who is already overequiped.

Smartphones and tablets have already reached stagnation. They got their start by reducing the need for computers. They did not replace people's main computer but took the place of the third or fourth computer which many people used to have. They also allowed people to consume content on the go.

> Who cares about some strange set top boxes.
It would not be a mere set-top-box. It would integrate many different functions. Do you really think the customer wants to have all of:
DVD or Blu-Ray player
OTA-television DVR
game console
Roku, AppleTV or equivalent

When they can have one box which has it all and also allows the following:
Play indie games (consoles mostly have big studio games)
Play high quality amateur (free) games
Allow children to play educational games
Acess textual data services (news, weather, road traffic, etc.)
Watch/record a video filmed with one's cameraphone / tablet / digital camcorder
View interactive multimedia content
View HBBTV

If there is no convergence box, people will still have to buy 4 boxes and cannot enjoy items on the second list. Why would people want to keep those 4 functions separate if they can be merged?
Even Apple is slowly realizing the fact by adding an app store to the AppleTV. They are, however trying to make the change as slowly as possible because they realize that as soon as model has changed, the AppleTV will have become devices used to view videos from many different services rather than tied to the Itunes store, so they slow down the deployment trying to voluntarly limit the popularity of the store. The fact is that the market IS developping and will develop fully regardless of wether MorphOS enters it or not.

> Real potent mobile phones, plus a few tablets will cater maintream consumer computer needs. Special purpose/geeks will stay laptop/big box.
You do not address the question of content consumption at home in the living room. While smartphones and tablets allow to consume content on the go, what will be used in the future to consume content at home? There will have to be some sort of device connected to the TV display, why not enter that market?

> The so called Wintel duo is lonhg gone. Intel is no more that tightly bound to MS. Intel is just a chip provider.
I have to disagree. While GNU/Linux is often used for servers. Windows remains the only significant desktop platform and will stay so for quite a while.

>> the change of ownership has just happened.
>...3 years ago.
Well, Imagination had to continue projects of the previous owner less they loose a lot more money. They only came with the first designs and project of their own 1 1/2 year ago. When you are coming from nothing, it takes time to build something, 1 1/2 year is not a lot. If the growth continues, they will only become a popular architecture around 2025 or so, not before.

>> the networking gear manufacturers are switching from PPC to MIPS,
>> the printer manufacturers are switching from PPC to MIPS
> They are switching from PPC, yes. Have you got any sources backing up the claim they are switching to MIPS?
For the networking gear manufacturer, just look a the list of current Cavium Octeon customers. With the Octeon, the MIPS is even getting into consumer routers, something which would have been unthinkable a few years ago (routerboard based desgns and others). Cisco uses MIPS in enterprise grade routers since it ditched PowerPC (it is also starting to use ARM). If you need specific examples of networking gear, let me know.
For the printers, I will come back to it later.
The fact is that the MIPS is growing, the 20 new licensees Imagination signed up is proof.

>> the chinese are embracing MIPS as their favorite platform
> They are embracing anything from ARM (too many to mention) over MIPS (Loongson, XBurst) and SPARC (FeiTeng) to Power (OpenPOWER CP1) and even Alpha (ShenWei)
Well, it depends. Big brand smartphone and tablet makers, such as Lenovo or Xiaomi are using ARM since they try to compete with Western/Japanese/Korean manufacturers. Supercomputers, and military applications are using pretty much anything. On the other hand, cheap smartphones and tablets are using MIPS from the series proaptiv, interaptiv, Warrior I or Warrior P almost exclusively.

> NXP (Ex-Freescale) cares about many more markets, including printers/imaging and routers/networking/telecom
We will have to see what becomes of the NXP absorbed freescale division, things may or may not change. But you will recognize that from 2005 to 2015 or so, Freescale only cared about the automotive, military, industrial and satellite processor, with a tiny bit of avionics and base-station-on-a-chip processors. Did they do anything to combat the loss of the printer and router markets? No, not the least. They never tried to seriously sell their NAS designs either (which, strangely, hasn't prevented some manufacturers from chosing these designs anyway).

> I don't think you know what you are talking about here. To me, you sound clueless regarding the resources required to design and manufacture a modern IC as complex as a multi-GHz SoC.
I think you do not realize the value for Imagination Technologies to have an efficient performant and ultra-low latency operating system supplied to them.

@Zlesea
You talk as if performance was all that mattered. Low energy devices with low power consumption are just as worthwile, if not moreso.


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