Is the PPC G5 multicored?
This has probably already been covered in another thread, but I was wondering if anyone knows about the architecture of the G5, specifically if it is multicored. Even before the G4 came out, people were talking about multicored chips. Bascially, the concept was, if I remember correctly, multiple processors on one chip, but sharing L2 and L3 cache, and maybe more than this. So, it would really increase performance. I am hoping the G5 is multicored, but if not it sounds like it has plenty of other big improvements to increase performance. I hope the Power Mac G5 comes out at Macworld New York this July, if not before. There will be some AWESOME speed demonstrations, I am sure.
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multicore= too many transistors= too much heat/power= too much money
[ 02-13-2002: Message edited by: admactanium ]</p>
Apple has donne a lot of thing to push developpers to think multiprocessor. I think that the G5 will be able to have multicore architecture. Now if the G5 will use the IBM technology, it's the futur that will tell us but the PowerPC roadmap of IBM is very close to the Motorola's roadmap.