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Old 09-11-2006, 08:54 AM   #1
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Default Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
it's explaned here :
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=134477 95&src=rss/businessNews

So what will happen to our beloved CPU ???
Will Freescale be splitted in several firms and which products will be stopped ???

:roll: :-?
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Old 09-12-2006, 03:27 AM   #2
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No one cares about the end of G3/G4 and the 68k cpu for new amiga and accelerators ? :-o
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Default Re: Consortium nears $16 billion deal for Freescale
Interesting. We will have to see what happens.
I'd hope the ppc processors aren't stopped and I wouldn't have thought they would be. If the 68k ones are stopped it probably won't affect amigans much as there aren't any 68k accelerators being made any more!
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And the new 030 for A600 ? :-)
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