First, PA Semi doesn't do chips for small devices. PA does chips for Servers. It's main customers were Mercury Computing, Curtiss-Wright, and NEC.
Second, Core 2 Duo is more modern than any Power Architecture except perhaps the Power 6. Way more power friendly than I thought possible out of x86.
third, PowerPC at the core level is not suited for cell phones. The Doze and Sleep modes, even for the PA chip were not at the level needed for cell phones. There is no thumb-like mode to compress code. Cell phones need one core with a crap architecture* that consumes very little power, and a second core that is slightly less crappy to display the pr0n.
finally, look at it from PA's (Dan's?) point of view. PA got screwed by Apple when apple went little endian. PA got screwed by TI when TI got out of the Fab business. Where exactly was this company going?
anyway, maybe now we'll find out what PA really stood for
Palo Alto Semi?
Perhaps Arm?
Putatively Apple?
*an e300 core is 1.75x faster than an 1136JF-S core. You can only guess on a mhz/mhz business how much faster the 1682M is than an A9 Cortex.
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Second, Core 2 Duo is more modern than any Power Architecture except perhaps the Power 6. Way more power friendly than I thought possible out of x86.
third, PowerPC at the core level is not suited for cell phones. The Doze and Sleep modes, even for the PA chip were not at the level needed for cell phones. There is no thumb-like mode to compress code. Cell phones need one core with a crap architecture* that consumes very little power, and a second core that is slightly less crappy to display the pr0n.
finally, look at it from PA's (Dan's?) point of view. PA got screwed by Apple when apple went little endian. PA got screwed by TI when TI got out of the Fab business. Where exactly was this company going?
anyway, maybe now we'll find out what PA really stood for Palo Alto Semi? Perhaps Arm? Putatively Apple?
*an e300 core is 1.75x faster than an 1136JF-S core. You can only guess on a mhz/mhz business how much faster the 1682M is than an A9 Cortex.