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  • There is a company called Cool Chips that has an thermal tunneling prototype. Supposedly, it is the most efficient cooling method.
    in PPC 970 date? Comment by *l++ April 2003
  • It looks like they kept 3 models of the old iMacs. Indigo $799 500Mhz-CD Rom Graphite/Snow $999 600Mhz-CDRW
    in No new powermacs!! Comment by *l++ January 2002
  • They have no choice but update the Powermacs soon. I am surprised they did not lower the prices on them. That bottom model is going to be a tough sell - and it won't be much better for the other ones. If Steve was ready to put an 800Mhz G4 in a…
    in No new powermacs!! Comment by *l++ January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Carol K: I am new to the Mac world and have just purchased a G4 Sawtooth 350Mhz. I want to upgrade the processor and ask that anyone with knowledge of which vendors sell these upgrades and/or any advice for upgrading th…
    in Mac G4 Upgrade Help Comment by *l++ May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Kurt: I was wondering how many changes/updates are required to the OS kernel to support the 970 and its companion chip. That depends if Apple wants to support the 970 in both 32 and 64 bit modes. If they are only i…
    in [Closed due to flaky BB] Next Powermac 970 with up to 2,5 GHZ ? Comment by *l++ February 2003
  • For IBM, PowerPC + Linux == freedom. No more Intel, no more Microsoft. They are again in charge of their destiny. If they have a client that can help bankroll the processor development by buying sufficient quantities (Apple), it is but icing on…
    in [Closed due to flaky BB] Next Powermac 970 with up to 2,5 GHZ ? Comment by *l++ February 2003
  • Given Fred Anderson latest words that Apple wants to increase market share from 3 to 5 percent, not short term profits. I don't believe that PPC970 based computers will carry a premium over today's range. The prices will be in line with the chip…
    in [Closed due to flaky BB] Next Powermac 970 with up to 2,5 GHZ ? Comment by *l++ February 2003
  • Intel can consider themselves lucky if Banias-based laptops get the same battery life as an iBook/Powerbook. Remember that the power requirement for the backlighting and the rest of the computer does not go away. Rare are today's PC laptop who…
    in Intel: Beyond GHZ Comment by *l++ January 2003
  • [quote]Originally posted by Stoo: Does power consumption scales linearly with transistor size and is heat is the only factor in scaling the G4? A 0.09u G4 would certainly be interesting. Power consumption scales with the square of the process …
    in ppc64 altivec support... Comment by *l++ September 2002
  • If Motorola really can come up with a 90nm process by the time they say and they build a G4 on it, then you will see a 4GHz G4 chip in the not too distant future. It would seem mad for them to skip a step (.13micron), but depending on the process…
    in ppc64 altivec support... Comment by *l++ September 2002
  • The processor they are announcing at the Microprocesssor Forum in October does have a vector unit and is 64 bits. This could be the confirmation that this vector unit is an Altivec unit (per IBM we already knew that it had the same number of instru…
    in ppc64 altivec support... Comment by *l++ September 2002
  • Actually it is significant. This means that IBMs vector unit on its 64bit processor is an Altivec unit.
    in ppc64 altivec support... Comment by *l++ September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by CodeWarrior: It's already in GCC due to IBM's Linux support on POWER4. Here's a couple of interesting items on the GNU GCC page: * The PowerPC back end has added 64-bit PowerPC GNU/Linux support. * Aldy Hernandez, of R…
    in The 64Bit Hint Comment by *l++ August 2002
  • Well, not quite correct. If the OS is 64 bits and the apps are 32 bits (each app can use a maximum of 4GB), then the developpers have nothing to do. But in a true 64 bit address space, a sizeof(void *) is 8 instead of 4 in a 32 bit address spac…
    in The 64Bit Hint Comment by *l++ August 2002
  • The Oxford 922 800Mbps ATA bridge Firewire chip will start shipping at the end of the month. The current Oxford 911 chip is probably the most widespread ATA bridge in use at the moment.
    in new firewire2 on the horizon Comment by *l++ August 2002
  • What I find interesting in what has transpired so far is that IBM says that it comes with over 160 new instructions. This happens to be the same count that Altivec has
    in Power4 w/SIMD Rumors hit the Mainstream Comment by *l++ August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by THT: Well, sooner or later, Motorola has to start fabbing processors on its 0.13u process, otherwise, they will start losing their bread and butter to MIPS and ARM. Motorola has said that they will be fabbing at 90nm b…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by *l++ September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Eupfhoria: For all of you enlighened people here, why couldn't a company move to say Base 4 code rather than base 2? I don't think this is the forum for such question, but here is an answer: The Russians had computer…
    in What's wrong with larger than binary code? (Base 4?) Comment by *l++ July 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg: ...between Motorola and IBM, the roadmap looks pretty decent. " This means one of two things: 1) Apple will keep using the G3 (made by IBM) for some time to come. 2) IBM will be making G4s/G5s for App…
    in Steve Jobs on the PPC roadmap Comment by *l++ July 2002
  • There also are references to x86 chips. This is a Darwin issue, not a MacOS X issue. Darwin can conceivably be built for the 68K, and can surely be built for the various x86 flavors. There may be other more meaningful places to look in than the…
    in No G5 support in MacWorld's Jaguar build. Comment by *l++ July 2002