IBM last night sold two of its PowerPC processor lines and a licence for the PowerPC instruction set to Applied Micro Circuits for $227m in cash and a renewed foundry commitment. The deal, announced last night, focuses on three low-end (133-400MHz) parts pitched at embedded applications, the 400 series and the 440 family, amounting to some eight 32-bit CPUs in total. Some have on-chip SDRAM, others have built-in Ethernet controllers. All consume no more than 2W and in many cases a lot less than that.
All eight chips are fabbed at 250nm, and IBM's foundries will continue to punch them out on Applied's behalf. The two companies already have such a relationship in place for other Applied products. IBM said it will continue to develop and offer PowerPC 40x chips alongside Applied, which will sit its acquisitions alongside its existing WAN and storage-oriented application processors.
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News source: The Reg
All eight chips are fabbed at 250nm, and IBM's foundries will continue to punch them out on Applied's behalf. The two companies already have such a relationship in place for other Applied products. IBM said it will continue to develop and offer PowerPC 40x chips alongside Applied, which will sit its acquisitions alongside its existing WAN and storage-oriented application processors.
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man, i would love to have that much in cash handed to me.
and who would really buy processors at that speed any more anyway...most people are more likely to go for the faster stuff than slower
I suggest u read it again
Are you really that Ignorant? If I'm going to buy a PDA, MP3 player, cellphone, gameboy, etc.; and am going to keep it in my pants pocket 6 inches away from my groin, and have the choice between a 2w ppc chip and 120w pentium 4, I know which one I'd pick.
On second thought, maybe you should buy the device with the pentium 4, future generations would appreciate you're sterility.
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