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 at 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 | -- | (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek | (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html | _______________________________________________ | linux-pm mailing list | linux-pm at lists.osdl.org | https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm | -- scott preece motorola mobile devices, il67, 1800 s. oak st., champaign, il 61820 e-mail: preece at motorola.com fax: +1-217-384-8550 phone: +1-217-384-8589 cell: +1-217-433-6114 pager: 2174336114 at vtext.com
