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[quote]My prediction: Apple will license altivec from Moto and get IBM to build the G5. Moto will concentrate on PPC for emedded applications only. I'm wondering where Apple will get the engineers to do this. yeah, they have firmware and…
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Apple really has no other choice.
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[quote]but I'M TALKING ABOUT THE P4-M, NOT NORTHWOOD!! Oops! Sorry, My Bad. Please Accept my appologies. I thought you were talking about something else.
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[quote]Yet all this crap you mentioned barely makes it faster than a P3-M. Get out much? A 2.2Gigha Northwood P4 offers significantly more performance than a 1.26Gighz P3-M. [quote]Sure, its complex, that's great. I don't give a damn how co…
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[quote]An 800 MHz 7445 would probably run neck and neck with a 1.7 GHz P4-M. Take into account that these are P4 chips that as everyone knows are designed mainly for MHz numbers, and not standalone performance Then why bother with 2 cycle latency…
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[quote]Welcome to the void! Actually, He is the Keeper of the Void. He will Own j00!
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I'll just say that it takes a lot of time and $$ to implement a new fab process. If Motorola stays in the financial tank, you may see process generations contiunue to fall behind.
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Eric, reading both the Register article and the Microprocessor Report: i think the Register is full of bull. The register also fell for the G5 hype. The Mircroprocessor report (written in 1999) says Power5 will be mid decade or so. Following i…
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[quote]Where do people find the time to write these posts that could choke an elephant? And so many? Guy's agree to disagree, the horse ain't moving anymore. Let's all move into some fresh material here. My advice to you, if you don't enjoy a thr…
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[quote]HmmmÉ it looks like the POWER5 is set to come out in early 2003. by which time the POWER4 will have reached about 1.63Ghz. or so IBM says. Interesting. Any link to that? I'm honestly interested. I have seen no mention of the Power5 fro…
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[quote]And then the Pentium Pro was everything else than cheap when it was released, in fact it was one of the most expensive desktop chips in history. IIRC, it was still quite a bit cheaper than the Alpha's and MIPS targetted to squash the x86.
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[quote]And I hear the POWER5 and Sun's new chip among numerous others will be showing up by then too. all of which should easily put McKinley in it's place easily. I don't know where your hearing the Power5 stuff from, but the Power4 isn't ev…
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HEHE, this is turning into a neat discussion [quote]Actually. the MIPS used in a lot of high-end routers, SAN boxes, telex switches, turnkey servers and such include the _very_ highest model ones MIPS offers a lot of that consists of lower…
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[quote]SPEC an't be taken seriously. I wouldn't dissmiss SPEC like you say. Try telling Engineers and CPU designers that and you won't likely be taken seriously yourself. Like any benchmark, you have to understand where it's value lies. …
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[quote]If they do that in CodeWarrior again, and the P3 still beats the G4, then I shall be convinced. Supposedly, Motorola's has a compiler that is even more optimal, I think it's called "Mr. C". At least that's what it tends to show in the Ars…
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Well Eric, you really haven't addressed the economic motivation part of the dropping MIPS, [quote]On the contrary. what do you think has powered the N64, PS and PS2. as well as numerous printer, digital copier and network router embedded lo…
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[quote]I'm afraid that explanation falls flat on it's face for the same reason that the classic "Apple should port OS X to 80x86 now!" one does. Let's say you're SGI. and you think: <Q> What would make a prospective customer want…
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[quote]Actually. I dug up the dirt on Intel suspiciously killing perfectly good RISC architectures myself. SGI were very glad to drop MIPS in Favor of IA64 as they could get someone else to develop MPU's for them. SGI is the one who killed (rath…
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[quote]As for MIPS. the research money for high end MIPS has dried up since that slime Belluzzo(Whome promptly moved to COO at Microsoft?) decided that SGI would start migrating to Intel's sucky IA64. and when Compaq subsequently killed it's himalay…
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[quote]It's called the truth. No, it's called "I'm in my own little world and havent' done any actual research from places like Maya Test Center" [quote] SGI's MIPS chips, DEC's Alpha, Hitachi's SH and IBM's POWER have all had much lower c…