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  • [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg: Motorola has no incentive to make fast desktop PPCs, they care more about the embedded market. It would be very cool if Apple could acquire the rights to Moto's PPC development (and the engineers) and des…
    in Why do you think apple haven't dumped MOTO? Comment by rooster March 2002
  • [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masker: [QB]AN interesting comment that I found at
    in Hypertransport, Rapid-I/O, DDR-SDRAM comments. Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [QUOTE]Originally posted by moki: [QB]I'm sure a number of you have read this already, but for the benefit of those who have not, the G4's shipping in the new PowerMac's are indeed the "Apollo" chips. They also have the ability to access DDR RAM (…
    in MC7455 == "Apollo" Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: I don't follow your logic here -- a multicore processor can have much wider and faster busses between the elements on the die, and can share many resources that seperate chips simply cannot share efficien…
    in DDR Compatibility with the G4 (from Mot) Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [QUOTE]Originally posted by RazzFazz: [QB] From my understanding of the documents on Motos website, this is not true, since both processors not only share the memory bandwidth (in which case the individual processors' bandwidth requirements woul…
    in DDR Compatibility with the G4 (from Mot) Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Outsider: A feature of the G5 is a builtin memory controller so we wouldn't needs a new N/Sbridge combo but a PCI/peripheral controller instead. This way you can segregate the memory bus speed (be it 266MHz or 333MHz) an…
    in What could be? Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Jet Powers: Also, Motorola states that 8540 is the first 85xx chip, so if the 8500 is coming, it is coming AFTER the 8540. If I had to guess, I'd say that Powermac gets Apollos this spring, and G5's in the fall '02 …
    in What could be? Comment by rooster January 2002
  • Re: Gigawire Perhaps will Apple use the name instead of the new RAPIDIO technology. RapidIo >>>>> Gigawire ? AliVec >>>>> Velocity Engine Rooster
    in Gigawire Comment by rooster January 2002
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mac Sack Black: What have you been reading? Try
    in The State Of Apple, MOT & IBM... Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Mac Sack Black: What have you been reading? Try
    in The State Of Apple, MOT & IBM... Comment by rooster January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Krassy: the 400Mhz bus speed is a joke... so is the 533Mhz and 1033Mhz RDRam. the BookE specification of the G5 mentiones a 500Mhz RapidIO bus speed... **** P4 RapidIO is a switched connection between diff…
    in There is no G5 Comment by rooster May 2002
  • What does that mean? We have working designs. Getting someone to fab them decently is the big problem. This is why Apple needs to buy out the PowerPC assets and have AMD fab them. AMD would do a tremendous amount of work to accomodate an Apple chip …
    in There is no G5 Comment by rooster May 2002