Re: Power Management - Engineers

Scott E. Preece
2006-11-06T01:02:24Z

I believe the PPC still does pretty well in embedded design wins, though
I don't think it's particularly popular in cellphone designs. I heard it
was very popular in embedded controller applications (like automotive
stuff) a few years ago, though I haven't been looking at such statistics
for some time...

scott

| From linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Sun Nov 5 16:35:05 2006
|
| Hi!
|
| > > Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead
| >
| > I guess you forgot to inform IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Sony, Toshiba,
| > Microsoft etc. of that... :)
|
| Ok, do you have email contacts? ;-)..
|
| > PowerPC is very much alive. It was a shame that Apple stopped using
| > PowerPC, but they were only one manufacturer among many.
|
| Ok, there probably still are uses for powerpc left.... but if someone
| tried to sell you a cellphone with "hey, this is not an ordinary
| cellphone, this one does not run stupid arm, this one runs great power
| pc" ... what would you tell him?
|
| Switch from arm to ppc is as hard as a crosscompile, and I do not
| think PowerPC is significantly different from ARM for cellphone use.
|
| Pavel
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