PowerPC: Motorola Looking for Buyer

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Well, since they faild to ignite anyones fire with their PPC processors (except Steve Jobs, you is now wooing IBM), this was only to be expected.

Sad sad story... To think if they hadn't thrown all their eggs in to the PPC basket, things might have been different, but that is another thread.

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I think they wasted the 68k potential.. still every one was hyping RISC at the time, how were the Mot Bosses to know any better?!!?

I wanter where this leaves their Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory technology... :-?

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Athlon with 68k/PPC hardware emulation instead of x86 would be nice!

I think the PPC and x86RISC-hybrid-beasties (Read Althon/Pentium) are quite a bit different and would not benefit from being an Emulation on an Athlon (The PPC can do it's own tricks)... The 68K on the other hand would be an ideal candidate for Athloning (ha!! I make new word!!!), but there's no market for it what-so-ever, the PPC (Haha, Mot killed their own baby)  and x86 have killed it's market share.

I dare you to buy AMD and then make a 68k compatible Athlon64, with support for 3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, long mode etc..., no I double Dare you, you have to do it now!!!!  :-P