23 Feb
2016
23 Feb
'16
10:41 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
POWER chips are still going strong but they're big
and run hot taking
lots of power. Apple needed a CPU line that could offer good notebook
chips as well as desktop chips, and POWER (and PowerPC) was only
addressing desktop devices.
Are you sure? I've seen plenty of Freescale cores going pretty low as
far as power consumption goes, like their whole e200 line to start from
the very low end, but there's also e6500 for example if you want 64 bits
and more processing power. And then plenty of choice in between.
Maciej