Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> They only came with the first designs and project of their own 1 1/2 year ago.
More like 2½ to 3 years ago.
http://imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-reveals-key-elements-of-its-new-mips-cpu-roadmap/http://imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-reveals-first-mips-warrior-p-class-cpu-core/> With the Octeon, the MIPS is even getting into consumer routers, something which
> would have been unthinkable a few years ago
MIPS has been in consumer routers with SoCs from the following companies for ages:
- Broadcom
- Qualcomm (Atheros, ZyDAS)
- MediaTek (Ralink)
- Lantiq (Infineon, Texas Instruments)
- Ikanos (Conexant, Analog Devices)
- Realtek
- AMD
- Renesas
Source:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/soc#companies> 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.
Freescale neglected SIMD-dependent military and aerospace/avionics market by replacing the e600-based MPC86xx with the e500mc-based and e5500-based QorIQ P series. They tried to correct this error later by reintroducing AltiVec in the e6500 core, but this was probably too late for many customers who had switched to Intel meanwhile.
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7183&start=193http://mil-embedded.com/guest-blogs/altivec-is-back/Contrary to your claim, I see no indication that Freescale's care for the networking/telecom market has declined after 2005. The entire QorIQ line, which started in 2008, is centered on that market. The alleged decline of Freescale's share in that market is not a consequence of a change in Freescale's attitude but has other reasons, e.g. the increasing popularity of ARM back when QorIQ was still PPC-only (they have been counteracting with ARM-based QorIQ LS for a while).
> Did they do anything to combat the loss of the printer and router markets?
> No, not the least.
They developed new SoCs for these markets.
> They never tried to seriously sell their NAS designs either
Freescale was a semiconductor company. Why should they have sold NAS devices?
> 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.
I guess they don't and won't either ;-)