| WolfpackN64 said: I know this is in the Nintendo Discussion, but that's because they still use PowerPC chips in their console. Nearly everytime a topic handles the internals of the Wii U, some comments talk about the "dated PowerPC architecture". This is complete bollocks. The Wii U chipset is derived from a dated PowerPC chip (Espresso, derived from Broadwell, derived from Gecko, derived from PowerPC 750), that is correct, but the PowerPC Architecture itself is NOT dated. The PowerPC architecture saw the light of day in 1992 with the current form Power ISA v2.07 released in 2013. For comparison, x86 started in 1978 with the most recent implementation x86-64 or AMD64 being 2003. There, needed to get that of my chest. |
Newly designed hardware is never dated, really, but that doesn't change the fact that the industry is currently moving away from that style of hardware and moving on to a different one(even tho that tech is dated as well, apparently). PowerPC hardware is dated in the sense that last years car model is dated.
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