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I think they are just designing for a different market. That is part of why Apple ditched PowerPC I think.
by yuhong 11y ago
I think they are just designing for a different market. That is part of why Apple ditched PowerPC I think.
- aidenn0 11y agoIntel had a huge process advantage over Freescale when Apple ditched PowerPC. PA-semi proved it was possible to make power-efficient cores (i.e. the PA6T, which everyone assumed Apple was going to use in their next line before the Intel transition was announced). also as a completely unrelated side-note, the number of processor lines started by Dobberpuhl is crazy: Dec Alpha StrongARM (Became X-Scale), what is now the Broadcom MIPS SoCs. Apple picked him up via an acqui-hire, but he retired the following year.