[j-nsp] MX80 Questions

[Saku Ytti]

On (2011-08-27 22:48 +1000), Julien Goodwin wrote:

> > less beefy than big brothers. Not really sure why, it's not like intel CPU
> > would be significant BOM addition to MX80 compared to freescale.
> > <tinfoilhat>downscaling trio would have been expensive, lot cheaper to reduce
> > the scale of the box is to fit it with poorer RE with less memory</tinfoilhat>
> 
> OK that's not really fair. Even a trivial embedded Intel x86 (and most
> usably performing clones) are a *lot* more complex then PowerPC can be
> 
> I've yet to open up an MX80 (the one we had in the office was only
> experiment) to even see if there is space that could have hosted one.

Now I'm by no means expert in the area. But pqIII is old technology at 90nm
litography, freescale has for some years pimped QorIQ as repleacement,
maybe if it did have QorIQ I could stretch my imagination to buy this argument.
I don't think you need to even look at any embedded intel solution, I think
core2duo would offer more work with less thermal output, physical space I
cannot fathom being an argument.

I think BOM is key argument. And I feel the BOM benefit was lost many times
over by several endianness problems increasing development costs.

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