Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by harikb on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:58PM (#28733621)

From what I remember, 68k processors were used by PalmPilot starting from the US Robotics days. I wonder if they had any particular power efficiency to make it better for Palm. Either that or I am remembering it wrong.

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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Matthias247 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:16PM (#28739228)

They are also used in automotive as part of the Coldfire CPU series.

But I think a lot of this usage goes back to the days where embedded CPU families had been a lot more fragmented, and companies usually picked one family of their favorite supplier (based on pricing, fulfilling the use-case, etc) and then just sticked to it due to code not being particularly portable.

Since that time the amount of CPU families that are actually used shrank drastically, and it's a lot more likely that all of those use-cases just pick ARM.

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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Trex_Egg on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:16PM (#28733967)

what is the main product line of PalmPilot?

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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by harikb on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:59AM (#28735101)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot

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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Trex_Egg on Sunday October 03, 2021 @08:52AM (#28736815)

Thank you for the link.

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