TS: The 970MP is coming - Page 2

Apple will have to go dual duals. Intel and AMD are going to move to dual core as the next big speed increase, and eventually all systems will be dual core.

Apple however, may get a bit of a jump start on the dual core rage. What they have in their hands is an opportunity for all of their desktops to trounce the competition. Dual core iMacs will finally be worth the money.

On the bus speed issue, its not that important. The bus speed as it stands is faster than the memory in the machine. Adding more cpus on their own buses, or faster buses wont increase the speed of the machine. What we dont want to see is situation where memory speeds outstrip bus speed ( like with the G4 ). I dont think this will happen. The G5 bus is already much faster than memory is going to be for a while, and has headroom. Dont get too hung up on it. Dual core faces the same issues that current duals face. Not enough memory bandwidth at all.

Finally, the G5 has higher clock speeds than what AMD is putting on the market, and you dont hear anyone whining about them not hitting 3ghz. What is that, they have 3200+ cpus, oh, thats the _MADE UP_ number that they use for speed.

All that open source stuff isn't directly provided in MacOS X, its a part of Darwin, the underlying core of OS X, which is Open source. MacOS X can bee seen as an "add-on" to darwin, in the same way that KDE and Gnome are the window manager "add-on" to Linux distros.

Personally, I think this is why Apple are providing Darwin as Open-Source - its a legal issue

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I don't think that the bus will be limited to 1 ghz, and even if it will not be a problem. Also remember, that the maximal level of performance of a computer (or a chain of elements) is the speed of the slowest part of it. Even if there is two 1,25 ghz bus, able to move 2*10 GB/sec, the main memory is limited to 6,4 GB/sec.
The memory is the limitant factor of the design.
Note also that the speed of the communication between the two chips is limited to 10 GB/sec with a huge latency (for the 2,5 ghz model). The communication between the two cores will be much faster (full speed and perhaps on 128 bits, rather than on 64) with much smaller latency.

In resume, the two core design will be more efficient to move datas, and the huge 1 MB cache per core will help.

But doesn't the FSB have to feed the GPU (hopefully soon to be PCI-Express) and maybe some other stuff in addition to memory? Maybe my understanding of computer engineering is off here. Bus speed is something we're currently way better at, so it just seems like (assuming the leaked info is correct) we're losing a big advantage.

Yes it's feed the GPU and others things, but for the moment a one ghz bus will be enough for this purpose. AGP 8 X only move 2 GB/sec. PCI express, will move twice in his first implementation, but Intel seems to face some problems with it : the first mobo are not shipped in the Intel world.

Anyway, the 1Ghz bus is not sure (the 970 MP thing is also just a rumor, even if I give it some credits)

So might this latest rumor about a 970MP dual core finally lead to my long called for quad Mac?

I'm tired of Apple trying to attain parity with Wintel (and AMD) systems. Even if you summon up the MHz-Myth and call the 2.5 970FX a "3200+" a-la AMD factoring (some would say "2999+"), it still is too close to call. The "worlds fastest personal computer" should be an unassailable claim.

Apple needs to set a performance bar that clearly exceeds that of the rest of the personal computer industry. And they need to do it by a wide margin in every category, Not just Photoshop bake-off's, but SPEC scores, and every other conceivable benchmark. Cross platform applications must run significantly faster on the top end Macintosh, even those that are not well optimized for the Mac.

To limit dual core chips to cheaper duals (or simply more margin) for the flagship towers would be unthinkable to me. A chance to dominate the high end for once must not be missed.

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The competition offers quad systems _today_ and have for some time, but Apple is not doing anything about it. If cooling a single core Prescott is hard, then I ccan't imagine how hard it will be to cool a dual core, let alone two or even four dual core chips.

This is finally a chance to put the boot into the Wintel camp.

It will majorly reduce the performance perception of all Apple's consumer desktops.

Good thing TM.

Two 3 gig cores. Nice.

Dual that.

Ouch time.

'X' should absolutely fly on this beast. Not to mention a substantial boost to 3D and video rendering... And all of a sudden we'll have digital hub computer in the iMac 3G that can take anything that's thrown at it when the iMac 3G is updated with a dual core sometime late next year?



I get the feeling that we've yet to see the best of PPC and the 'G5'.

Dual Core will finally bring home the promise of PPC architecture.

Yeesh, why's it taken so long?

I hope Apple doesn't waist this opportunity to seize the advantage while the wintel family is behind...

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Edit: Meh, responded to a question that had already been addressed.

Or while AMD is within reach!

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But wouldn't IBM be losing money by selling 2 dual cores for the same price as 2 single cores?

Huh? Dell has machines shipping with PCI Express right now, and Newegg has PCI-E motherboards in stock.

I think Whisper does have a point-- if you've got two processors fighting for bandwidth on a single channel, it's bound to slow things down, at least for some applications. I'd suspect it'd only really have an impact on the usual suspects (video editing, 3D modeling, etc.), but it wouldn't surprise me to see a measurable impact due to the bus sharing.

On the other hand, with two cores on a single chip, new possibilities are opened up for communication between the cores, since you don't have those pesky problems with sending signals off chip. Does anybody have information about this? Obviously, the easiest thing to do would be to just stick another 1GHz Elastic Interconnect (Interface? Whatever its called) between the two cores... but that would be kinda boring. Could we see a much faster intrachip interconnect? EI at 3GHz, anyone?

"How can we afford to sell two processors for the price of one? VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME."

Any news on SMT (aka hyperthreading). 2 cores SMT = 4 virtual processors, 2 cpu = 8 virtual processors. The new longer pipelines could really benefit from SMT

They probably won't sell them for the same price, at bare minimum there is the extra material involved in production of them. The size of the dual core according to the story is slightly more than that of the first generation of the 970, so I would imagine that the cost per chip will be slighty more than that of the original 970 which is still quite a bit less than the cost of two first gen 970's.

I suspect that the 1 GHz bus shared between two cores on a single chip is likely correct. This would explain the 1MB L2 per core. It might be a concession to heat/power consumption. I don't think it will be a big deal, however, as the 1 GHz bus is pretty damn fast and there are 2 in a 2 chip system.

The GPU does not use the FSB. Apple has it connected via an AGP port on the memory controller and it normally goes directly to memory for its data. The AGP port will be replaced with PCIe port(s), or a HyperTransport bridge.

Perhaps someone could check on the current bus speeds proposed by IBM for this dual core part.

As a side note, a comparison of the G5 water cooled heatsink assembly to the size of the four core Power 5 assembly might be interesting.

That's 4MB's of total L2 cache, that's crazy. 1MB PER core... As for cooling, I think that the water system they have set up right now will do the trick. Just turn up the fans to get a coule more CFM's through the radiator.....

What I want to see EARLY 2005

Dual 3Ghz G5 (Dual Core)
1GB DDR600 Ram (avalible now)
160GB SATA HD
Nvidia 6800Ultra DDL x16 PCIe
SuperDrive (Dual Layer)
$2999

Personally I could care less about the high end, I want to see a PM back at the $1499 or $1599 price, or better yet a replacement for the G4's that they have discontinued starting at $1299. That will do more for Apple's market share than a high end tower or another overpriced iMac.

IBM is not the only one to go dual. AMD and INTEL are taking the same way.
Anyway there will be a big difference between the former and the two latters : X86 machines uses windowx and PPC machine use os X.

It's not a secret that mac os X, is much more optmized for MP than X86 PC. Same will go for dual dual core computers (quad like computers). Granted to IBM, Apple has a future.

Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.

Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.

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Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.

Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.

Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.

Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.

Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.

Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.

About the interconnect, it seems that the architecture will differ from the power 4. The power 4 has three independants L2 cache, and a huge L3 controller (which is in charge also of communication between various power 4 chips).

The PPC 970 MP seems to have one dedicated L2 cache per core. Like air sluf said the interconnect will be at full clock speed (there is no reason to do otherwise), but the wide of the bus is unknown (64 bits, 128 bits ? ...). I guess that the communication between the two cores, will be de facto a communications between the two L2 cache via a controller.

1. AMD never promised 3GHz.
2. AMD is the current king of the hill in performance. Their Opterons kill everything in the low-end space -- G5s, P4's, Xeons, etc... No one is complaining about the low clockspeed, because unlike the G5, they are actually faster than the competition.
3. It's not a made-up number. Benchmarks clearly show, especially with the Athlon64 line, that it corresponds well with Intel.


Not true.

Apples and oranges.

AMD doesn't sell systems. Apple does. AMD may offer great bang for buck to DIY'ers and small assemblers, but they don't have the ability to produce enough volume to get 1st tier manufacturers and keep them. Those design wins go to intel 9 out of 10 times. And since most people buy their systems from major manufacturers rather than small ones, and even fewer build their own, Intel keeps on mopping the floor with AMD, regardless of the performance or price. I'm willing to bet that Intel even beats AMD on price when it comes to delivering 100's of thousands of parts for large production runs. I'd be surprised in fact, if overall, it wasn't cheaper for companies like Dell, HP, and IBM to turn to Intel for the CPU needs, than to AMD. AMD only retails lower. Intel very agressively cuts prices to major manufactures. You and I can't get those prices, nor can some relatively low volume builder, liek an Alienware, but the guys with the sales (the guys that matter), they're doing just fine buying Intel.

Does anyone have an idea when the PowerPC chips based off of the Power5 series will appear? My guess is that this core would be much better suited to multicore. I think that I and others expected that those chips would be around soon, as in the end of the year time frame. Could this rumor have mistaken the pending release of the 980, as in the end of year or early '05 for a 970MP. I would think that a 980MP would be easier to do because I thought that IBM was going to make a multicore PowerPC based off of the Power5 series wheather Apple was going to use it or not. Maybe someone else will remember these details, maybe those chips were originally for XBox or IBM servers. Other things that I remember is that the 980 was supposed to be for low power operation, a cooler core chip. What better to use as dual core than a core that is designed to run cooler.

The POWER4 and POWER5 are very similar in the respect of multi core. And they are very well suited for it too. IBM probably had a multi core variant of the 970 in mind all along so the 970MP won't be anything like a hack with just two cores put together for good measure.

IBM is not relying on Apple for the future of its PowerPC line in general or 970 in perticular. IBM will use them themselves (and I hope in Linux workstations too, not only servers) and besides that we have the likes of Microsoft who'll become a substantially larger customer for these kinds of high performance CPUs than Apple will ever be.

A light version of the POWER5 _is_ in the works, that's certain, but we can oly guess in what time frame. I expect it to come in all kinds of flavours from single core, to mobile, dual core and even more. The Xenon-processor in Xbox NeXT will be tripple core, and it'll be based on POWER5 since it is also hyperthreaded, something that is a new feature of the POWER5.

I wouldn't be surprised if a single core version om GR-UL (aka 975/980/Power5 light) showed up around the same time frame as 970MP.

This is an unwarranted assumption.

I didn't try, and quote you twice on purpose Henriok it just turned out that waybecause I wanted to reference these two.



The thing about those Quad Opteron, and Quad XEON boxes is that the actual real performance gains on things like 3D, or anything we would find useful are limited. It's great in servers, but only the Sparc from SUN, and it's 4 way SIMD unit in it's processors seems to pack any punch in territory where we could see some performance to justify the additional price of 4 processors. Intel, and AMD have not the same effect. And SUN can not seem to sell squat outside of the military for intelligence research. IBM on the other hand is another animal all together. They are capable, but as I was saying Apple didn't need to make a quad single core motherboard. Who would they have marketed it to? They don't have a big enough share of the enterprise community, and they are just laying the groundwork in super-computing where IBM already is well known. I think there was no point in making a quad single core motherboard wit 4 physical chip sockets for 4 physical chips.


That remains to be seen. Sure M$ will sell a butt load of XBOX's in the US, (and it will probably stop there again) but the team of IBM, and Apple has not shown us if they are actually going to come out, and play with the big boys, and make some more competitive products so Apple can have a true workstation class computer. This also remains to be seen, but once they do Apple will gain ground as will IBM.



My sentiments are quite similar. They should come out and set the bar much higher anyway, and not lie about the actual speeds. I already know AMD kicks the crap out of a G5 in everything (even photoshop) If the actual performance was a good as WWDC 2003 said it was it would have been great, but it was false information, and bunch of BS false marketing.

It's not totally unwarranted. It's based on this anonymous white paper post that was making headlines in certain circles around the internet.

onlooker said:
... "as I was saying Apple didn't need to make a quad single core motherboard. Who would they have marketed it to? ... I think there was no point in making a quad single core motherboard wit 4 physical chip sockets for 4 physical chips."...

A quad Macintosh, whether single or dual core in design, would be welcomed by anyone using Apple's high end video and imaging applications. Logic users might put it to good use as well.

I was most likely early in calling for a quad Mac (around the release of the MERSI compliant Motorola 7410), but it was the capability of the 7410 in a MP environment that made me call for a Wintel killer.

As in all things computer, it's the software that makes things possible, and in 2000 OSX was new, and most likely not quite ready for four processor systems. And applications that could fully use such a system were not mainstream, if they were available at all.

But that was then and this is now. Developers have had a chance to use threading in their applications. Even After Effects can set up rendering on the second processor.

More importantly, Apple could no doubt optimize it's own applications for use by a quad system.

As to who would buy it... BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!

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This is the second time I've seen this stated, that is that the GPU bandwidth does not impinge on the FSB bandwidth. Now I went looking for my JPEG showing the layout of the busses and of course didn't find it, it any event isn't this a bit of an over simplification?

The first thing that comes to mind is that all FSB traffic goes through the North bridge, with traffic directed to the correct auxilary bus be it PCI, AGP, memory or other hypertransport busses. I would be very surprised if Apple did not talk to the AGP card directly (well via a hop though the bridge) from the processor from time to time. Even if it doesn't happen much now it is very likely to happen more in the future.

I do not see this as the same thing as competeing for RAM bandwidth though that could impact FSB, depending on how much buffering is going on in the bridge chip. Just about any DMA activity that takes place on the bridge is likely to impact transfers to/from memory via the FSB. Besides just how does the GPU talk to memory?

Well we do not know how accurate the information is. A 1 GHz FSB may be perfect for a processor with an integrated memory controller. Though I believe many mis one aspect of an IMC that many mis is that of increased FSB usage due to the GPU haveing to get to memory through the FSB.

I tend to think that the big limitation on FSB speed right now is that of PCB technology. As to the bus being underutilized now, that may very well be the case for many applications. But one has to remember the nature of this bus, that is the bandwidth is really half of the stated spec in any one direction. This changes the perspective a bit, it may be far easier to hit transfer limits than one may first realize.

Yep many decisions go into selecting things such a bus speeds. However transfer rates eventually have to go up to improve performance. As others have pointed out there are options beyond clock rate, one of which would be wider buses. For the speculated chip to have any future though I suspect that bandwidth may be more than that implied by clock rate. It is a given that in a year or two the bnadwidths that we are all so happy about now will be old technology.

The other very real possibility is that the info is just wrong. That is either misquoted or confused by missing information.

Dave

I hate being quoted partially when what I said was all supposed to be in one breath. To edit out the middle removes the validity of what I was referring to from what was being said in the previous statement.

What I was referring to was whom AMD, and the Intel quad motherboards were mostly addressing in the marketplace - which I had referenced previously.
That aside I do think wasting the extra space inside a G5 case would have been premature at that time. People may have been interested, but the amount of users needed to succeed at it were not paying as close attention to Apple as a possibility for such hardware. Most people wont come over from the other side unless Apple proves itself with a few consecutive showings of absolute dedication to provide continuous solutions in such a demanding highend marketplace. If Apple were to put fourth efforts to get these users they have to remain committed, but to do that they could not just jump right in with both feet, and say look I'm here. The were smart in taking it gradually. Now most people see them as a possibility as long as they add the key elements needed to do the work in their fields. Such as 3D. I know a lot of people that think Apple had a winner with their OS, and the G5 is an exciting processor with potential, and a strong looking future with IBM. Most 3D users think Apple just needs to be able to provide a Professional level 3D video card, and the G5 just needs to get a over that hump of being one step behind the playing field.
The biggest reason Apple needs to prove it's committed to this is the software switch. It's big chunk of change to move platforms. Most providers will license you a new Mac version if you do, but there is also sometimes a fee to do it, and those fees add up. Nevertheless, Apple is at limbo right now with everybody watching. It's either do it, or not.

Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.

Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.

Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.

Nope, Apples and apricots perhaps, but still two different types of fruit.

You're focused on prices and marketshare. You're analogy is faulty because in the majority of sales Intel beats AMD on price. AMD only retails lower to build your own enthusiasts and small volume manufacturers. Intel is cheaper everywhere where there is any sort of volume. Dell doesn't contract with Intel just to pay more for CPU's or motherboards. Big vendors use Intel because the economies are better -- one stop shopping for CPU, Gfx, Mobo, I/O. Hence, your price argument falls flat.

AMD's/Intel's price to you is no indication of their ability to price out orders for IBM/HP/Dell/Sony. Wanna guess who wins on price in that company?

Drool.

That's what I want too.

Onlooker, completely agree with what you said. When the G5 hit, I think most were amazed. I was still recovering from shock a whole week later. I thought, 'finally, Apple are going bleeding edge and staying there...'.

The last updates didn't repeat that emphasis... Disppointing. Even if you take IBM's failure to make 3 gig, (a number I would have thought they would have achieved...or even, at least, get closer to...), you have to ask why a top spec card is bundled in the top spec PowerMac. Still no monitor bundle. No PCI Express. But considering it aint going to mean jot until the Nividi/Ati cards ship in significant volume, have games that can take advantage of it and a rev b of PCI Express that starts to show what this 'next gen' 'AGP' can do. Reviews are decidly muted on what impact PCI Express has right now.

In short, a dual 2.5 G5 and Ati Radeon 9800xt and a Nvidia 6800 dual dual DVI card...are as good as the PC world has right now, eh?

So we can afford to wait for half a year for our bug tweaked and patched versions of Doom 3 and Half Life 2, eh?

Hmmm.

But Onlooker might say that's not the point.

Where's the Wildcat Pro 3D card with dual 256 texture units. Or dual 512 texture units. Where's the token 3D card with a $2000 price on its head? Y'know. Play ball. Look like you're serious about 3D. Couldn't Apple at least license development with creative labs or nividia to have a Quadro Uber on the Apple store? Share some of the development costs? Build to order? Just how different is a Mac graphics card from a PC one anyhow? Endian and all.

At least Maya Unlimited is coming. That's something, right? The mothership is moving in the right direction.

Maybe when the dual 970MP machines hit with Maya Unlimited with an Ati Fire Pro, Quadro or Wildcat available as options we can say the Mac has finally arrived as a Workstation.

I'd like to see it.

I'd also like to see Apple buy Softimage 4.0 and yank the PC version.

That's the one piece missing from Apple's uber software line-up. Heavy duty 3D app.

What I don't understand is why they didn't take the opportunity to buy Maya when Alias Wavey became 'Alias' and was sold for...$26 million (? How much did it go for?)

Pocket change for Apple. Would such an aquisition have driven Newtek, Maxxon etc away? I wouldn't have thought so as 3D users are quite loyal to their package.

Lightwave benches on Apple's page look good with the dual 2.5 handing a dual 3.2 Xeon its ASS.

Hmmm.

If Think Secret says the MP is coming...it's probably more than 50/50 it's coming. There aren't many doubters out there.

I guess I'm a little confused by the arrival of the Power 5 from IBM which seems to hint at a truly scaleable architecture for Powerbooks to PowerMacs. There's rumours of the 975 being right on schedule! Even thought the Fx was late! what does this mean? Ur...I don't know.

Is the 975 (which showed itself on an IBM page in the orient...saw it myself...) going into a new class of Workstation? With the FX derived MP going into convential PowerMacs and Powertuned into Powerbooks and iMacs?

975 Workstation.
970FXMP PowerMacs.
Single Core MP iMacs/PowerBooks.

The FX throws out that much heat then maybe the MP has a better layout to dissapate the heat..? The FX as it stands doesn't seem like the chip to go into PowerBooks and iMacs despite the much ballyhoo about its supposedly better heat temperatures. That doesn't seem to have worked out in practice re: the 2.5 liquid cooled Macs.

If 975 chips are on schedule and ready now...then why weren't they announced? Ramping? IBM and Apple swallowing Fx costs? ie FX development was too far along to back out of without waste, expense etc...and the 975 was still too far from ramp to use?

WILL the 975 arrive in single core Macs and the MP go into workstation macs?

I'm confused by the apparent 'parallel' nature of the new kid of the rumour block, the 'MP' arriving out of nowhere to seemingly surplant all those '975' rumours. We've even seen the 975 on IBM hosted web pages! With nary a mention of this 'MP'.

Unless the MP IS the 975 MP..?

Was the 970 single core rushed to market in light of Motorola's problems?

Maybe the 970 MP is what WAS intended but it needed 0.09 to make it happen? Less of a rush, more time to develop, better chip layout, better process and tech's. Hence the 'swift' transition to 0.09. To get the 'MP' closer. Maybe the 'MP' is the real 'place holder' until the road map for Apple and IBM was established. ie it will keep Apple competitive with single and dual core Wintelians allowing for the road map to come on stream aka the 975 Power 5 derived chip.

Confused? I am. But it's a nice kind of confusion to have...it's just the imminent rumour talk of the 975...maybe the rumour sites are suffering from premature specification and the hidden face/newcomer has come out from under cover of darkness to be revealed as the fx successor..?



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