NewsFactor diskuterar lite kring IBM och Moto´s PPC roadmap.
IBM kör redan med .13 microns tillverkning medan Moto tydligen inte skall börja med detta förrens till G5an.
Vilket är tvärtemot vad tidigare rykten sagt nästa om revision av G4an
"According to Motorola sources, a tweaked version of the Apollo 7450 G4, the 7470, will be ready for volume production shortly after the end of Q2, in time for a summer ramp. The 7470 will be manufactured on a 0.13 micron process, allowing for a smaller die size with room for 512K of L2 cache, and support up to 4MB of DDR-SDRAM L3 cache.
The 7470 supports a modified bus protocol, MPX+, which supports double data transfer and which should effectively run at 266Mhz according to sources.
The MPX+ bus retains MPX´s 36-bit addressing lines, and is described as an interim measure. Don´t expect dramatic leaps in SMP scaling - two will remain the sweet spot. The 7470 should scale to 1.5GHz. In parallel development, Motorola is priming a cut-down 7470, labelled the 7460, which doesn´t support L3 cache. " /macrumors.com
Hur som helst så rör det på sig en del.
Kanske någon av dessa nyheter kan infinna sig i morgondagens "happening".
En rackserver med multicore PPC vore väl skoj..4 G4or i ett o samma chip * 2 = 8CPU´s.
Yum yum?
Hittade lite mer info bland diskussionerna på macrumors
"That´s interesting....
I remember over at appleinsider, there is a thread concerning the G5 development, and it has been rumored that the G5 project was kill by Apple over a year ago for unknown reason, and the next chip after the G4 will be manufactured by IBM with SIMD unit similar to AltiVec. And now this bit of news surface just before the announcement of the rackmount server...hmm
What will it use?? But bear in mind that it will make no sense at all if Apple announce a G4 successor tommorrow in the rackmount server since everyone will then know the new chip is coming at NYMW. That will harm the PM G4´s sales drastically. Unless, Apple have another suprise for us....
If that´s the case, what won´t Apple do in NYMW??
I am confused..... "
Ganska bra, förvirrad blir man ja..
[ 13 Maj 2002, 20:27: Meddelandet ändrat av: Jürgen B ]
