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PowerPC Goes 64 bit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone's-doing-it dept.

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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  1. About bloody time by Drakon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I requested this at IBM's PPC booth at linux world in JANUARY
    what took them so long ;-)

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    Buttsex.
  2. Re:No, Apple should continue to heed Intel by GreenKiwi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I'll sacrifice performance I'll never realize in return for a beautiful, intuitive, and responsive interface housed in a quiet, attractive package.

    Wouldn't we all... especially if she'll do the dishes too...