[HN Gopher] P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC ___________________________________________________________________ P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC Author : picture Score : 36 points Date : 2022-06-05 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.cpushack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.cpushack.com) | andrekandre wrote: | its interesting to think about what would have happened if apple | hadn't switched to intel by then... | | would they have bought them and stayed ppc the whole time? | | would macs have gotten as popular (without bootcamp/intel | compatibility) as they are today? | chrsw wrote: | Site not loading for me. | [deleted] | zitterbewegung wrote: | The only logical buyer if Apple didn't purchase them is either | Motorola or IBM if they were to only be competitive in the | embedded systems market. If they were never purchased given the | rise of ARM processors they could have actually started making | those for the mobile phone market instead and probably would have | been competitive to Qualcomm . | rektide wrote: | They shouldnt have sold. They should be competing with AMD & | Intel & Apple. | | You also have the wrong market segment. This was supposed to be | a 25w chip with crazy high i/o. Dual 10Gbit, plenty of pcie & | sata... back in 2006... at low power, all integrated... this | chip was supposed to be a dara pushing monster. | | Maybe they could have scaled down but the intent was obviously | different, to deliver performant extremely well integrared | embedded & bigger cpus. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-05 23:00 UTC)