[quote]Originally posted by hir:
<strong>moto has already gone on record that the current crop of G4's are the much discussed Apollos.
Tha article then concludes that the only thing left on the moto PPC roadmap is to go to .15 micron manufacturing process. No mention of ever going to .13. You can read the whole <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/29.motorola.php" target="_blank">article</a> on Maccentral.
[ 01-29-2002: Message edited by: hir ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think the whole .13 vs. .15 thing has been hashed to death and is a result of Moto using an older or non-conventional numbering scheme to describe their manufacturing process. Someone who understands all this can clear it up for us (again).
UPDATE: I talked to my cousin again today, and he is a little suspicious of me :cool: and is reluctant to give anything else away... I just asked about the whole Apollo naming scheme and his response was that the Apollo was intended to be manufactured on the smaller process, but since the chip divisions of Moto have had such massive layoffs and so forth, they went ahead with the SOI on the current process. The die shrink that was supposed to debut as Apollo will be what appears around April.
As far as the G5, he got a little nervous (didn't want anyone to get in trouble, since I'm sure he's figured out this isn't all for my private knowledge), and would only say that his friends say it won't be ready until the end of the year or early next year. I just hope the G5 engineers have been told to blow smoke up everyone's a$$, and they're lying to him. However, I do believe that this is what he's been told.
<strong>moto has already gone on record that the current crop of G4's are the much discussed Apollos.
Tha article then concludes that the only thing left on the moto PPC roadmap is to go to .15 micron manufacturing process. No mention of ever going to .13. You can read the whole <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/29.motorola.php" target="_blank">article</a> on Maccentral.
[ 01-29-2002: Message edited by: hir ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think the whole .13 vs. .15 thing has been hashed to death and is a result of Moto using an older or non-conventional numbering scheme to describe their manufacturing process. Someone who understands all this can clear it up for us (again).
UPDATE: I talked to my cousin again today, and he is a little suspicious of me :cool: and is reluctant to give anything else away... I just asked about the whole Apollo naming scheme and his response was that the Apollo was intended to be manufactured on the smaller process, but since the chip divisions of Moto have had such massive layoffs and so forth, they went ahead with the SOI on the current process. The die shrink that was supposed to debut as Apollo will be what appears around April.
As far as the G5, he got a little nervous (didn't want anyone to get in trouble, since I'm sure he's figured out this isn't all for my private knowledge), and would only say that his friends say it won't be ready until the end of the year or early next year. I just hope the G5 engineers have been told to blow smoke up everyone's a$$, and they're lying to him. However, I do believe that this is what he's been told.
