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Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
« on: September 11, 2006, 03:54:40 PM »
it's explaned here :
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=13447795&src=rss/businessNews

So what will happen to our beloved CPU ???
Will Freescale be splitted in several firms and which products will be stopped ???

 :roll:  :-?
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Re: Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2006, 10:27:36 AM »
No one cares about the end of G3/G4 and the 68k cpu for new amiga and accelerators ?  :-o
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Re: Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2006, 10:55:49 AM »
Interesting. We will have to see what happens.
I'd hope the ppc processors aren't stopped and I wouldn't have thought they would be. If the 68k ones are stopped it probably won't affect amigans much as there aren't any 68k accelerators being made any more!
 

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Re: Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2006, 01:06:43 PM »
And the new 030 for A600 ?  :-)
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