22 Feb
2016
22 Feb
'16
7:07 p.m.
On Feb 22, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Mazzini Alessandro
<mazzinia at tin.it> wrote:
Not to intrude, but apple could also have gone with the serious power cpu,
thus not "needing" to move to x86. As long as there's enough of a push, sw
houses release versions for a different architecture... and power is hardly a dead end.
Iirc ditching Power in favor of x86 had a lot less to do with the computing power
but more to do with: A. The mobile versions of Intel processors being available in both
more powerful and also lower power for laptops, and B. Being able to leverage off of the
x86 desktop/laptop chipset available to drive down costs.
Clearly Power is doing quite well in embedded and portable solutions today.