[openppc] PowerPC based Desktops

[Henry Keultjes <keultjes@earthlink.net>]

It's been awhile since I wrote "Perfect Pair - PowerPC and Linux".

http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/0027.html

Obviously the PowerPC is doing well in servers and embedded applications like settop boxes.  That said, has anyone on this list noticed an increased willingness on the parts of the PowerPC players, IBM and Motorola, to produce the SoCs or discretes that system builders need to compete with Intel on the desktop?

Is the lack of applications that will run on a PowerPC platform an issue that is preventing PowerPC on the desktop from becoming reality?

Obviously there is the price issue.  Volume issues aside, is there a fundamental reason that a desktop SoC with a PowerPC core has to be more expensive than such a SoC with a Pentium core?

Henry Keultjes
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