Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:43 UTC, submitted by Hakime Seddik
P.A. Semi, a 150-employee chip startup, wants to make name for itself through attention to detail. The Silicon Valley chip startup, run by chip legend Dan Dobberpuhl-Dobberpuhl, its CEO, presided over the development of the Alpha processor while at Digital Equipment Corp. lifted its veil of secrecy Monday. The company will begin offering a new family of low-power, multicore, PowerPC architecture processors in 2006.
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Now this is a reason to say to developpers of Haiku/Syllable/SkyOS: "When will it be ported to the POWER architecture?".
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"P.A. Semi's first processor, a chip dubbed PA6T-1682M, will include two 2GHz processor cores, a pair of DDR2 memory controllers, 2MB of Level 2 cache, and an I/O subsystem consisting of eight PCI Express controllers, two 10-gigabit Ethernet controllers, and four gigabit Ethernet controllers, the company said."
And THIS running on 13-25 watts..ideal for media centre type PCs, or perhaps laptops.