[OT?] The Most Power-Efficient High-Performance Processor Ever Designed

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[quote=“SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Feb. 5, 2007”]The P.A. Semi PA6T-1682M, developed in 65-nanometer process technology, is a 64-bit dual-core microprocessor, designed from the ground up, based on the company’s Power Architecture license from IBM. The 1682M integrates what is typically a three- to five-chip-set platform into a single chip, called a “platform processor.” Total device power dissipation is 5-13W (typical), and worst-case power is 25W, with both CPUs running at 2 GHz and all peripherals active. This is three times to four times lower power than other processor solutions implemented in 65-nanometer process technology with equivalent peripherals support.

The 1682M features two 2-GHz processors (each with its own dual-integer, floating-point, and VMX vector-processing units), 2 MB of level two cache, two DDR-2 memory controllers and hardware assist engines for TCP/IP acceleration, security, CRC checksum and XOR computation. The device also integrates a flexible I/O subsystem that supports eight PCI Express controllers, two 10-Gigabit Ethernet controllers and four Gigabit Ethernet controllers that share 24 configurable SERDES lanes.[/quote]

I think they could be interested to sponsorize/support Haiku(PPC) !

<a http://www.pasemi.com/>P.A. Semi official website
<a http://www.pasemi.com/news/pr_2007_02_05b.html>PWRFICIENT PA6T-1682M press release

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Those are some wicked chips, and I’d love to see haiku running on them someday. IMO if the hardware was fast enough and stuck out from the others, then big-name developers would actually take a second look at developing their software for the OS that runs on top. Plus, I thought I read something about P.A. Semi chips along time ago that you can integrate graphics and a bunch of other things on chip similar to the AMD Fusion chip(graphics on chip). I would actually be willing to help head a HaikuBOX project up myself if the time is right.