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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 28-Apr-2004 13:49:37
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| And as a side note,
MAI has decided to postpone there ArticiaP chip to Q3-2004 Link.  |
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 28-Apr-2004 13:55:24
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 28-Apr-2004 15:35:57
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| Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) reveals new PPC roadmap |
I thought that Motorola had changed its name (as implied above) but Freescale is nothing more then a subsidury of Motorola. I wondered why Motorola would change thier name, as they are so well known as Moto
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 28-Apr-2004 18:15:03
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| Engineering Samples in Q3 2004 for the Artica P ... damn! Do they expect to sell any products at all?!
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 28-Apr-2004 19:07:37
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| My understanding is that Freescale is on its own in several months. However Motorola will own some stock in the company for sometime.
More interesting to me is, that Freescale is doing anything with PowerPC. I had talks with Motorola some 3-4 years ago and at the time they were talking no future new products.
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 29-Apr-2004 0:01:51
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| I had talks with Motorola some 3-4 years ago and at the time they were talking no future new products. |
Were you doing some kind of PowerPC project back then?
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Posted on 29-Apr-2004 0:22:11
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I wonder how that's going to impact the microATX AmigaOne, is Alan going to basically keep waiting until the new chips are manufactured (AFAIK "engineering samples" does not equal "full-scale production"), or is he going to just keep on using the (quickly ageing) Articia S? (or blow the whole thing off and use the IBM or Marvell chips instead) |
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Re: Freescale Semiconductor reveals new PPC roadmap
Posted on 29-Apr-2004 5:16:12
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| The XC was planned for some time late this year, so no I don't think that any plans will change.
Question is if the XC has been postponed to "later" this year because of this, or if it's the Articia P that has been postponed as Alan don't want anybody moaning about slow releases of new hardware or him holding back. For all we know Eyetech could be the only one interested in the Articia P atm...
But what worries me most is if/how any of this could affect(s) the Articia I or Is. |
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That date has been puhsed for the xxx time, and I remember it once being Q3/2002 .....
Even IF they make it till Q3, engeneering samples means just that, and such were available for the ArticiaS as early as 2000 ! This would be the 1st revision of the chip, with no bugs ironed out (and there will be bugs just like in any other IC), and no suitable mobo to run it. I would say 1 year is the absolute minimum to get these done, so A1-XC for Christmas 2005 would still be a tough call.
Eyetech can't just use IBM/Marvell chips as none of these have reference-designs suitable for end-consumers (lots of weird options, lots of basics just missing) that the A1s could be based on, and finding a design-company that could pop up a complete board, starting from just the chip and schematics, and capable of doing it at a small budget and in reasonable time ......
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Posted on 2-May-2004 8:18:13
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| I wonder if the "Freescale Semiconductor" roadmap for the 9S12 microcontrollers ends with "abandon ship". Because that is what I'm doing, if H8 etc. are less pain...
Hmm... /me searches for roadmaps on mot.com...
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