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Re: IBM tries ARM-style Licensing of PPC Processors
« on: August 06, 2013, 08:06:43 PM »
Be interesting to see where this goes. PPC is still popular in the embedded market, so manufacturers being able to integrate it into their own SoCs could work out pretty well. But I'll say what I've been saying about ARM for the last five years: somebody give it to me in a laptop form factor already!
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Re: IBM tries ARM-style Licensing of PPC Processors
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2013, 05:02:59 PM »
Quote from: WolfToTheMoon;743921
Bottomline, PPC is on it's way out.
PPC's been "on its way out" for years now, as long as you ask proponents of any other architecture. But it's taking its time about actually being "out..."
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