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Offline spirantho

Re: IBM tries ARM-style Licensing of PPC Processors
« on: August 07, 2013, 10:37:59 AM »
The PowerPC embedded market is still quite large, don't forget that  - and the x86 embedded market much less so. So I'm not surprised at all if PPC outsells x86 overall.
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Offline spirantho

Re: IBM tries ARM-style Licensing of PPC Processors
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2013, 03:24:12 PM »
For those who are interested, the source of the graph posted was here:

http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/schirrmeister/tag/intel/

I think this has a bearing on things:
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The underlying data for this graph includes standalone CPUs and System-on-Chips (SoCs) consumed by all tracked electronic system types.
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