PowerPC Goes 64 bit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 9, 2002 @06:12AM 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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Altivec? by spookysuicide · 2002-08-09 06:16 · Score: 3, Redundant

Is that "160 specialized vector instructions" the infamous motorola designed altivec? Is this the next processor apple will use? Does this mean all that intel talk was well.... just talk?
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