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Originally posted by garegin View Postexpect that Apple knows squat about making CPUs. The R&D for new CPU lines is herculean. You can't just put on a turtleneck and willy nily beat Intel at their game. If they do, they eventually fall behind, badly.
The PWRficient seemed a curious cpu, since it's apparently bi-endian, and runs at reasonably high clocks and has altivec. I really wish Apple hadn't bought P.A. Semi, such a loss, they could've done some wonderful and interesting cpu designs, now they're locked in Apple's secret culture.
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Originally posted by Ibidem View PostApple bought out Intrinsity and have been designing their own ARM SoCs for mobile devices for quite a while.
I don't think apple does much more than throw the fabs a cad file for their chips (simplification I'm sure, but the actual manufacturing is left to the fabs, and that is an area Intel is the acknowledged leader).
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx View PostCause PowerPC is becoming irrelevant as time goes by? It's been pushed out the console market by x86. ARM has the mobile market cornered. What does PowerPC have a market in, IBM's servers?
They only other I can see buying that division, and I think that one is mostly utopic, would be if some open compute project partner banding together to buy it. Has I highly doubt Facebook want to get in server market, even if the main contributor and user of Open Compute design and have enough asset to simply buy it themselves, but I could see them putting down some money for reduced server manufacturing cost, from been one of the main business partner, instead of going through 3rd party ODM.
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx View PostCause PowerPC is becoming irrelevant as time goes by? It's been pushed out the console market by x86. ARM has the mobile market cornered. What does PowerPC have a market in, IBM's servers?
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I really do miss PowerPC, it really was far faster then x86 for a number of tasks back when they where still a consumer product.
Originally posted by liam View PostThey could buy the expertise they need.
They've got so much liquidity that there's not much they couldn't do, but they would need to show that the VAST expense to be worth it.
They could try buying IBMs Hudson Valley fab. That's a state of the art facility and I'd heard that IBM was considering unloading it.
Next they'd need to buy lcd panel maker and actual manufacturing facilities to assemble the components to fully verticalize (yeah, I made that a verb).
This would cost tons, but they could do it.
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