[sdiy] The magic of ARM

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Lanterman, Aaron wrote:

> On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:25 PM, James Hughes <james at virtualjames.com> wrote:
>
>> This sort of pressure is what's lead to things like the openPOWER consortium. IBM realized they needed to be more ARM-like to compete. There's rumblings that even Intel may start opening up some of their designs.
>
> Related question: Long term, does the PowerPC architecture have a future?

IBM is making noises along the lines of licensing the POWER architecture. 
I don't know if it means anything for PowerPC (which itself is a 
derivative of POWER), but there you go.

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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