@ A. Wolf

Please see the quote I included in my post. jcmarcos was specifically referring to smartbooks and tablets. I did not intent to make any statements regarding phones or similarily sized media players.

The Sharp PC-Z1, on the other hand, could indeed be included in my list. So could the iPad, which is admittedly very successful. That said, my point remains. There are close to no products out there.

Arm is the way to go while struggling to reach 1Ghz and low wattage PPC processors from Apllied Micro and PA Semi that clock between 1.5 and 1.8 Ghz passively cooled are a dead end?

That's strange. If IBM wanted to return to struggling with marketing PPC/Cell technology for PCs we'd have 3.2 Ghz or higher processors.

PPC doesn't look dead, it just looks like some of the players are jumping on to a well promoted (and overloaded) bandwagon.

[ Edited by Jim on 2010/6/23 13:36 ]

> yet, many would agree that there's been a switch.

Yes, looks likely in a way: e700 cancelled and e600 EOL'd, while i.MX performance is advancing into their own Power Architecture CPU's levels. But on the other hand, Freescale's Power Architecture department just got a massive performance boost again with the advent of the e5500 core.

> Sadly, there's no wolves over there

As a MorphOS user, my interest lies where MorphOS is. For now that's Power Architecture :-)

> Please see the quote I included in my post. jcmarcos was specifically
> referring to smartbooks and tablets.

Yes, with my reference to phones I lost context. My bad.

> my point remains. There are close to no products out there.

As the definition of "close to none" lacks any quantification I won't dispute that ;-)

> Arm is [...] struggling to reach 1Ghz

Btw, did you follow my hint to Freescale's i.MX roadmap over there? If I had glasses I would have attempted to clean them to be sure it's really written there ;-)

Addendum:

> e700 cancelled [...]. But on the other hand, Freescale's Power Architecture department
> just got a massive performance boost again with the advent of the e5500 core.

It may actually be that the e5500/e500mc64 became what was announced as e700 six years ago, which would mean that the e700 was *not* cancelled (but rather put on ice for some time inbetween):

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&start=240


Edit: On the other hand:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&start=353

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf on 2010/7/8 15:05 ]

Update:

> About one year ago Neko predicted that ARM/i.MX would
> replace Power Architecture in these automotive sub-domains.
> It didn't, and I predict that it won't.

Freescale's Global Automotive Segment Marketing Director says:

"Power Architecture technology is the platform used for Freescale's most advanced automotive devices, and it's carrying our product portfolio into the next decade. It is the technology of choice for many automotive OEMs and tier ones. [...] So, the next time you get in your car, there's a good chance that Power Architecture technology will get you to your destination."
http://blogs.freescale.com/2010/10/20/powering-todays-automobiles-into-the-future/

Seems that Freescale is following my prediction quite well ;-)

haven't heard anything from him lately either

> haven't heard anything from him lately either

He's more active at his usual places:

http://blog.efikamx.info
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/profile/8
http://imxcommunity.org/profile/MattSealey

I don't expect him to comment here on the discrepancy between his prediction and reality though ;-)

...which reminds me something I've been thinking lately: It's quite amazing that this very site, about an obscure operating system and old hardware, is more lively than those sites combined!

> http://anubis-os.org/home/ progress? anyone?

Restart:

http://www.anubis-os.org
http://code.google.com/p/anubis-os/
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=709182