I would love to see a Rasperry Pi type device with a PPC chip on it, a 603e equivalent for example, or even better, a 7400 series "G4" chip.
IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
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Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#12The final paragraph sounds like an answer to the AMD/ARM-driven HSA Foundation.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#13"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
They still show up in HPC systems from time to time. It's a nice architecture.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#14"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
I work in automotive software, and PowerPC CPUs (albeit from Freescale and STMicroelectronics, not IBM) are more popular than ever. It's a very common choice for powertrain ECUs.
any particular reason? error rate, power use, ?
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#15I assume this is mostly targeted at the very high-end - servers and super-computers and such.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#16"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
Of course it still exists. They're doing this now because they don't want to be steamrolled by the raging success that is the OpenSPARC project.
It is the execution that counts. The world could use a third mass architecture. Especially one that is not too tightly IP locked. The whole web 0.1, 1.0,2.0 came from the fact that PC clones were everywhere.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#17"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
AIX and iOS; AS/400
Big data still requires a lot of power to move it.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#18Strong feeling of deja vu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Platf...
There was even a version of Windows NT 4.0 for that. It was great. Then Motorola decided they had no clue what they were doing with computers, IBM gave up and shut the whole thing down.
All of the RISC chips were dying anyway. Intel was starting to build steam with the Pentium Pro and Pentium II, Wintel servers were getting cheaper and more common, Windows was becoming 'good enough' and Linux started to push the expensive traditional Linuxes off the table.
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#19"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
I work in automotive software, and PowerPC CPUs (albeit from Freescale and STMicroelectronics, not IBM) are more popular than ever. It's a very common choice for powertrain ECUs.
Big in avionics for some reason too. Wasn't it the F/22 which received an upgraded PPC that was in the news a while back?
Re: IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
#20"With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors" I didn't know Power chip business still existed.
Besides the fact that PowerPC is still very common in embedded systems (and provided the CPU in all three of the last generation of game consoles), POWER != PowerPC. IBM Watson was a POWER7 system, as are a bunch of the top 500 supercomputers and many many large business big iron servers running AIX.