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  • Sill question but.. Will this new CPU be dual-core or only single-core? As I understand this, a cpu contains 2 cores, and 4 & 4 CPUs are placed into 1 package?
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • Network equipment and other communications gear?? Doubt it, thats where low-power PPCG4 and MIPS rule. IBM itself and Apple is probably going to be the two biggest customers of this Power4. News.com is writing the chip, most likely, will be s…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by User Tron: As both PPC suppliers were turning their back on Apple, SJ made a 5Y contract with MOT to avoid being without a CPU suddenly. End of Line Uhu? And where do you have that from? we got that Microsoft de…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by apple.otaku: If this chip is being made for Apple and seeing as how its not an embedded processor, wouldn't Apple get to announce models using it before IBM spews out technical details? No.. 1: I doubt this chips …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • So whats the 7470? Some MOSR dream-product? AFAIK, Motorola havent announced any new G4 chip after the SOI G4. To be honest, I dont think Motorola is going to add new features to the G4 line. I suspect the Motorola "high-end" PPC is dead.
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • IBM have used the same forum to announce the Power4. IIRC, they talked about it ~2 years ahead of actual release. This CPU might be different, since its not a completly new design. OK, adding SIMD is non-trival, but we already have Altivec in t…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: No links required. I found this http://news.com.com/2100-1001-220805.html
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: Nonetheless, I don't think Apple would allow public disclosure of the techinical details of a chip that they were going to use. My guess is that we'll see this thing next week. uhm? Motorola discussed d…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: I don't think Apple would allow anybody to announce a chip made for Apple's computers before Apple would. Since I'm assuming that this chip will be used by Apple, my guess is next week. IBM has a tradi…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • Motorola didnt announce anything last year, except the e500.. ( Well, actually.. we heard about it the core way before that ). But what is the number of Altivec instructions? something around 160? Too lazy to look up.. [ 08-07-2002: Message ed…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Banana Nut Bread: MWUHHAHAHAHAHAH! It looks as tho our dear friends over at Intel will be producing another of their own chips that will be subject to the "Megahertz Myth" ...
    in Future: Intel may have to eat its own dogfood ... Comment by blabla August 2002
  • Amazing thread Anyway, I grabbed this link from the yahoo AAPL board.
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Ed M.: "To begin with Intel does not have a separate SIMD unit like PowerPC does. If you want to use MMX/SSE/SSE2 on a Pentium, you have to shut down the FPU. That is very expensive to do. As a work around, Intel h…
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • ( ops.. i misunderstood Programmer.. sorry ) [ 08-06-2002: Message edited by: blabla ]
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: Can I have my cake...and eat it too?? [ 08-06-2002: Message edited by: hmurchison ] Implementing 64 bit FP support is a waste of time as long as Altivec stays at 128 bit. At the same time we know do…
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: Because apps the need number crunching and require Double Precison FPU won't see any advantages from Altivec. I dont think 64 bit FP is much used in various DSP algoritms, at least not in the market…
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: Hey..I just want Double Precision Altivec without losing speed. but Altivec is only 128 bit wide, and wouldnt be able to performe operations on more than 2 double FP data/cycle. But looking at the op-c…
    in Macintoshes coming next week ? month ? year ? Comment by blabla August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by yoyoman: [QB]I saw them working on it on the 3rd floor. QB]
    in G5 Comment by blabla August 2002
  • 200 teraflops??? :eek: I would sure love to run some GA problems on that machine
    in IBM-PowerPC Comment by blabla August 2002
  • Is that ~4.3 billion cold cash in the bank, or does it include Arm/Earthlink/Akamai stocks? Because the drop in the stock market is forcing Apple to write down the value of their stock portfolio when the next Q-result is presented. Apple is owning 5…
    in Apple spent 2 billion? on what? Comment by blabla August 2002