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    Andreas_Wolf
    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=193
    http://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 ;-)
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