Well, there is the Talos 2. But it cost more than x86 for the same performance, plus you can't expect to run Windows on it. The only people that can successfully use that platform are Linux power users.It's unfortunate it's essentially non-existing in consumer space these days, which may make this a case of "too little too late".
Not necessarily true, China has been all over the map on ISA of natively designed CPU cores - at least Alpha (Shunwei), MIPS (Loongson) and ARM (Phytium).I think it is too late. A similar effort didn't save SPARC, though I suppose it helped keep it alive in Japan. Power isn't dead, won't die soon, but being open isn't going to increase the number of implementations.
There's no reason that the same setup used for Windows on ARM can't be ported to other ISA's like POWER and RISC-V.Well, there is the Talos 2. But it cost more than x86 for the same performance, plus you can't expect to run Windows on it. The only people that can successfully use that platform are Linux power users.
It's now royalty free.Okay, what am I missing? I thought POWER went open in 2013? All they did was join the Linux Foundation last week . . . it changes their governance but um, not sure what else that really means?
It's now royalty free.
The Only reason the Dreaded "Power ISA" was not entirely forgotten long ago is because it has been backed by IBM one of the huge corporation that still standing for more than a century, but just like the OpenSPARC, nobody really cares about it.
Ugh, don't remind me of that - still stinging from Nintendo misleading us into thinking that the WiiU CPU was POWER7 with that WATSON comment.POWER7 - Wikipedia
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Ugh, don't remind me of that - still stinging from Nintendo misleading us into thinking that the WiiU CPU was POWER7 with that WATSON comment.
Probably the initial Gekko chip which was a customised variant of PowerPC 750CX, more or less state of the art at the time the GameCube came out.Nintendo hasn't done anything close to cutting-edge with their CPUS since . . . eh . . . erm . . . well it's been awhile.
Probably the initial Gekko chip which was a customised variant of PowerPC 750CX, more or less state of the art at the time the GameCube came out.