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Analysts: Dual-Core PowerPC G5s Due for Apple
eWeek (Link Only) | 6/3/2005 | By John G. Spooner

Posted on 06/03/2005 8:04:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker

Apple will use dual-core PowerPC G5s... contrary to reports that they will switch to Intel...

Link to eWeek article per request not to post


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; ibm; intel; macintosh; osx
Updated: The company will pack a forthcoming dual-core PowerPC 970 processor into future Mac desktops and even notebooks, analysts predict.
1 posted on 06/03/2005 8:04:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Bush2000; antiRepublicrat; Action-America; eno_; Glenn; bentfeather; BigFinn; byset; Bubba; ...
Contrary article claims Apple will go Dual-Core PowerPC from IBM...

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2 posted on 06/03/2005 8:05:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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3 posted on 06/03/2005 8:07:22 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Swordmaker

4 posted on 06/03/2005 8:09:43 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Swordmaker

Bump...


5 posted on 06/03/2005 8:11:41 PM PDT by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: montag813

Why don't you try not to speak for everyone?


6 posted on 06/03/2005 8:15:10 PM PDT by Panerai
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To: montag813

Actually, nobody on this thread cares what YOU think. Obviously, you are a mere bystander.


7 posted on 06/03/2005 8:36:05 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine

Really cool graphic though!

*cough*


8 posted on 06/03/2005 8:38:00 PM PDT by anonymous_user (Not everything's a conspiracy.)
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To: montag813

Macintosh... it's the signal imbedded in the carrier wave.


9 posted on 06/03/2005 8:40:00 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Swordmaker

I think apple should look into using that new Cell processor IBM, Toshiba, and Sony are working on. It is the only true multicore processor in procution. It will have something on the scale of ten cores in each chip. Compare that to AMD and Intel's rinky dink dual core phlim phlam. I say phlim phlam because the Intel Chip isn't really a dual core, but two dies on one chip. I see true dual core similar to AMD's chip. Both cores run off the same bus, unlike Intels, and the Chips can use shared onboard cache. this reduces task intervals and drastically speeds up processing. Intel's is more like Hyperthreading to the next level.


10 posted on 06/03/2005 8:45:09 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: montag813

ES

Figure it out, Sherlock.


11 posted on 06/03/2005 10:10:57 PM PDT by rlmorel
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To: 6SJ7

I'd wear my foil hat, but it interferes with the ability of my Mac to wirelessly beam instructions to me from the Mother Ship (Cupertino)...:)


12 posted on 06/03/2005 10:12:56 PM PDT by rlmorel
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I think apple should look into using that new Cell processor IBM, Toshiba, and Sony are working on.

Cell is not fully generally. It is more like the old Cray vector engines. Ridiculously fast for certain narrow domains, but dog slow for a ton of others. It would be a pile of stinky poo for a lot of very standard applications.

The point of a good CPU is that it can do everything you can throw at it reasonably well. Things like Cell, DSPs, FPGAs, etc are more useful as co-processors unless you only plan on running a single type of code (like graphics intensive apps). Speaking of which, one of Cray's current systems does bind FPGA coprocessors to Opterons. Pretty sweet.

Cell is not a new idea. It is a rehash of a very old one. There is a reason we don't use architectures like that for general purpose computing.

13 posted on 06/03/2005 10:17:36 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: Swordmaker
Here's the limit of my interest in faster chips (click the logo):

(what's the proportion of people who want faster chips and people who need faster chips?)

14 posted on 06/04/2005 10:39:40 AM PDT by solitas (So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
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