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Re:Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consor... by oscargrouch on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @04:33PM (#6168967)
any chance to have a parallella sort of SOC, a cheap HPC contender out of this consortiums?

imagine a PowerPC HPC SOC for less than $99 :)

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Re:Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consor... by iyulaev on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:09PM (#6169551)
POWER != PowerPC, although they are related.

There are/were plenty of PowerPC-based microcontrollers. Freescale, among other vendors, had a few families. It's all ARM now though as far as I know.

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Re:Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consor... by bashinator on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:25PM (#6169620)
PPC is still incredibly common in industrial embedded systems.
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