PowerPC Goes 64 bit

prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech runs a story about IBM planning to introduce a new 64-bit PowerPC architecture for desktops in October at the Microprocessor Forum. The conference agenda tells us that "this processor is an 8-way superscalar design that fully supports Symmetric MultiProcessing. The processor is further enhanced by a vector processing unit implementing over 160 specialized vector instructions and implements a system interface capable of up to 6.4GB/s"." There's also a News.com story.

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Re:Apple switching to intel?

[be-fan]

Apple people are such morons. A few years ago, Compaq got lambasted for making proprietory motherboards. They promptly stopped that practice. Yet, Apple people *like* their proprietory crap. You should be asking for higher quality, less troublesome open hardware, not pretending that proprietory hardware is okay at any cost.