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6/21/2025, 12:30:57 AM
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IBM still produces PowerPC architecture chips regularly. Toshiba's CPU division mostly got absorbed into Fujitsu, who were responsible for the A64FX in the fastest supercomputer at Riken.
It's more about economies of scale than anything. Third parties had more sway than people think and having to know multiple architectures was causing quality to slip on specific platforms which caused the console manufacturers to point the finger back at the third party devs.
The only "win-win" solution was to make the chips similar to the point of being nearly identical. The problem is that the consumer still loses because they are artificially locked in to that platform despite the hardware just being a fucking PC. Even Nintendo fell, converging their handheld and home console into the equivalent of a 2015 flagship smartphone (or 2023 flagship for S2)
the only way to get back to custom architectures is to have everyone adopt RISC-V and then differentiate themselves with the GPU and any other peripherals. we aren't going back to custom CPUs ever.
IBM still produces PowerPC architecture chips regularly. Toshiba's CPU division mostly got absorbed into Fujitsu, who were responsible for the A64FX in the fastest supercomputer at Riken.
It's more about economies of scale than anything. Third parties had more sway than people think and having to know multiple architectures was causing quality to slip on specific platforms which caused the console manufacturers to point the finger back at the third party devs.
The only "win-win" solution was to make the chips similar to the point of being nearly identical. The problem is that the consumer still loses because they are artificially locked in to that platform despite the hardware just being a fucking PC. Even Nintendo fell, converging their handheld and home console into the equivalent of a 2015 flagship smartphone (or 2023 flagship for S2)
the only way to get back to custom architectures is to have everyone adopt RISC-V and then differentiate themselves with the GPU and any other peripherals. we aren't going back to custom CPUs ever.
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