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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. PowerPC has been 64 bit for 6 YEARS! by neurojab · · Score: 5, Informative

    PowerPC has been available in 64 bit since the introduction of the A10 in 1996.

    Here's some proof.

    The new multi-code die is very interesting though...