So finally Freescale make the 64 bit core!!!
Yeah!

It's not the Amiga X 1000 PowerPc cpu??

Freescale announced new P3 and P5 families within its QorIQ system-on-chip platform, as well its first 64-bit Power Architecture core, clockable to 2.5GHz. The single-core QorIQ P5010 and dual-core P5020 processors offer the 64-bit e5500 core, which uses 30 Watts while clocked at 2.2GHz.

The dual-core P5020 performs at 13,200 DMIPs in 30 Watts when running at 2.2GHz,


http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News ... 10/?kc=rss

Shhh... This forum is no longer interested in PowerPC processors :lol:

Great news anyway. But I suppose those new QorIQ processors are not suited for the kind of computers Genesi is interested in. Not to mention they must be very expensive...

very interesting. notable points from the article:

* hypervisor (about time ppc platforms got virtualizaition facilities as standard)
* 'classic' (i.e. non-APU) scalar FPU with massive performance
* 64GB of physical addressable space
* no altivec or any other SIMD facilities :/ i can't imagine there's nothing in the data-plane task domain that would benefit from some form of SIMD.

I think you're not so far from the reality, unfortunately ... The buzz is louder around the ARM technology so everyone suddently agree ARM is great.

Good job, Freescale, I was not expecting 64-bit cores from them.

I wonder what is the called "Hybrid 32-bit mode to support legacy software and transition to 64-bit architecture" ...

It makes it possible to run "regular" 32-bit software.

I didn't know that. Hypervisor is a very important feature in processors since a long time ago.

Pity all these new processors are suited to boring network tasks. I guess finding an adequate southbridge is as hard as it's always been. We got so used to SOCs recently...

I think ppc had a hard time in the recent years and there was some consolidation. Now ppc has the chance to recover a bit. Not very likely on the desktop or mobile market, but on many other markets. And while not everything is rosy easy-peasy, I think it looked worse for ppc before. There is somemomentum again.