[HN Gopher] P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC
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       P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-06-05 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (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...
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       | would they have bought them and stayed ppc the whole time?
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       | would macs have gotten as popular (without bootcamp/intel
       | compatibility) as they are today?
        
       | chrsw wrote:
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       | 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.
        
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