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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. Next on Jerry Springer... by DavidLeblond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Board meetings usually sound pretty boring, but I think I'd pay to sit in on that one.

    1. Re:Next on Jerry Springer... by DavidLeblond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oops this was meant for the previous story. How in hell did it end up here? I haven't even read this story yet!