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Technical reasoning for PowerPC's embedded success?

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cross6

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Was a huge story when nintendo dropped its long running partner NEC and their MIPS cpu's.

MS dumping intel in the xbox 360.

Power PC phones, etc, etc.


Just wandering what makes it so appealing for both small embedded and high end products compared to MIPS, ARM, geode, etc?
 
isn't the power pc alot faster than the MIPS, ARM, and geode?

Also i would think embedded solutions like the power pc because it seems that you have more choices on what you can do/add to the CPU for your specific purpose unlike Intel's Pentium and AMD Athlons CPUs.
 
Some of the Geodes are just renamed athlons....

Anyhow, PowerPC seems to scale in performance and power consumption pretty well, has a straightfoward design, and is made to be able to operate as a micro controller where you can just have a bunch of stuff hooked up to the cpu and pretty much nothing else. (whereas typical x86 cpus seem to need at least a bit more hardware)
I'd assume it beat out MIPs, ARM, and the rest just because it can scale higher in power, though MIPs and ARM are still extremely prevelent and ARM probably has a much higher marketshare.
 
ibm has probably been putting a ton more money into development than those others, considering the powerpc g5 gets sold as a high-margin microprocessor rather than a low-margin microcontroller. additionally they've got the power server chip to contribute r&d with as well.
 
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