Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2065 from 2003/6/4
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
Apple will have the PA6T manufactured until mid-2011 at least. By that time and assuming the X1000 will still not be commercially available the actual development time will have crossed the 2.5 years mark. That's as much as five times "half a year"
But you're right in that A-Eon could get into hot water if they don't get the X1000 to market soon. That's assuming Apple really choose the minimum time they're obliged to have the PA6T manufactured *and* don't find anybody to buy the design from them.
I'd be surprised if no other company will produce them under Apple's license later on. Demand from the military market is there. And this market is a good market to earn money. Probably too little fish for Apple, but for a smaller company a good catch. But I wouldn't bet on falling prices though.
If I had to design a ppc board today, I'd probably go the QorIQ route now. Nevertheless, the 86xx cpus are still kind of attractive, but of course they haven't gotten better over the years. But still I would like to see an 8610 board.
QorIQ offers a modern process, brillant throughput, rather reasonable prices and at least some future plan (if they just decided to shrink the process for the e600 and did an e600 QorIQ - I would like that).
On the software side I hope that one day MorphOS can somehow utilize additional cores. But I think with the upcoming support for maschines having more than one cpu/core, the developers will sooner or later get bored enough to do some CoreUp.library or such (or will some other company do some WarpCore.lib...?).
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