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It is a long story and it is not over yet.
What a nice read! I'm not saying that business failures are nice, only the fact of being able to read this.
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we knew that the chip was not going to be able to get the job done for the devices we had defined because of the lack of cache-coherency
Yes, I remember this story. It would require a very big software effort to overcome.
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Freescale had not informed us of any changes.
This is when you realize that direct contact with the engineers is unvaluable. While freescale, as a company, couldn't care less about this detail, engineers would have warned you immediately.
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This was a shock to all of us.
Indeed. It has the same e300 core as the 5200, the drop of cache coherency is quite a surprise. Until you realize that this is a multicore chip (e300 + PowerVR + AXE), which perhaps makes cache coherency so complicated that it had to be dropped.
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The 5121e is suited to many potential applications, but not a full-scale desktop machine or a fully functional mobile device.
But it comes close, I think. And, most of all, as someone said in this forum before, it's the only sensible priced CPU from freescale, so perhaps the first one in the list if you insist in having them as CPU provider in your products.
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Significant software modifications would be required. When we brought this information forward MTC/THTF (and Freescale) they did not want to accept this information/proof.
It was then when you felt the urge to... whatever.
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MTC/THTF decided to do it themselves and ignore the alternatives we proposed.
Sure, they are the big boys here, that's the usual attitude. Still, as of today, no product from them can be seen. And they keep that ugly web site.
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MTC/THTF discarded our agreement; they had no intention to respect it.
Again, big boys attitude.
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MTC/THTF hired an EFIKA Projects developer selected by reviewing the information on this site
And that's "do it ourselves"? Can we know the name of that fellow developer?
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ended up at CES with handheld devices that did not work. The desktop and television demo systems worked, but were actually not using the chip at all. They used standard PCs hidden under the booth.
Horror! But we all saw those videos with the handheld variations "working". Or, at least, things moved in their screens...
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These false systems are what MTC/THTF used to sell CherryPal on the concept, which then CherryPal used to raise some initial money and create a website full of misrepresentation about the chip and the devices that can be built using it.
There goes Matt's phrase about CherryPal digging their own hole. I keep on searching for proof of a CherryPal getting to the hands of the customer, but this could also be a complete failure. Perhaps the next news from them is removing the web site and dissapear... I hope not, but after reading this, it could happen easily.
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More later...
Gimme gimme... Again, thankyou very much for sharing this story with us.
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