P.A. Semi, a startup from the Silicon Valley lead by the former leader of Dec Alpha development announced they got a licence for using the Power architecture by IBM.
Their future PWRficient CPUs familly (64bits, low consuption, multi-core based on Power) was characterized by a 5 to 13W consumption at 2GHz, much less than nowadays PowerPC 970. The 2GHz version might be sold by the 3rd quarter of 2006, in a dual core version supporting 2 DDR2 controllers, 2 10Gb Ethernet ports, 4 1Gb ports, 8 PCI-Express controllers and 2Mo cache. In 2007 a mono-core version as well as a quadri-core might appear. A 8 core version could be released in 2008.
Their market is that of network switches, gateways with firewall as well as that of Raid controllers and printing servers.
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