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Apple Is Buyer of New 64-Bit IBM Chips

Posted by Hemos on from the makin'-the-move-with-powerpc dept.

ohmygod2 wrote to us with a story from SF Gate that Apple, unsurprisingly, is going to be one of the purchasers of IBM's PowerPC 970. At this time, though, it's unclear where Apple is going to actually *use* said chip.Update: 10/14 15:53 GMT by H : Follow-up to Tim's story.

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  1. urr by peterpi · · Score: 5, Funny
    "it's unclear where Apple is going to actually *use* said chip"

    I predict that Apple will use the chip in a high end personal computer.

    1. Re:urr by noewun · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wait a minute - let's not jump to conclusions.

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    2. Re:urr by froseph · · Score: 2, Funny

      For all we know, it might be used one hell of an expensive Apple branded silicon chip cookie

    3. Re:urr by noewun · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or perhaps the world's most bitchin' iPod.

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    4. Re:urr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO!

  2. where is Apple going to actually *use* said chip? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    psst someone tells them to use it on a motherboard

  3. where are they going to use it?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are so many options:

    • Stacked up to make that annoying table in the engineer's break room stable
    • Ceramic heat thingys for toaster ovens
    • Dropped out of airplanes over Alaska as a NORML protest
    • Thrown at people pumping gas
    • As party favors at Job's next all-night coke party
    • The latest thing in West-Coast gansta rapper accessories
    I mean, seriously, where the fuck else would you use a new CPU than in ... your computers as a new CPU?
  4. hmmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now all we need is a good portable 64 bit OS. ;-)

    >SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
    0 rows returned

  5. Apple Employee Reads Slashdot by tunabomber · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict that Apple will use the chip in a high end personal computer.

    Wow! That's an even better idea! ...but the 64-bit iPod project is already in high gear, so we can't stop now, can we?

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    1. Re:Apple Employee Reads Slashdot by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 5, Funny
      *Gasp* My gawd, it's!....The Newton!!!.

      What other rational explaination is their?

  6. Re:my favorite line by Peyna · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the 2.8 Ghz processor "makes the Internet faster!" Duh.

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  7. Critics by ultraslide · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Critics -- notably Intel -- argue that most desktop users have no need for 64-bit processing"

    Critics -- notably Microsoft -- have argued that most desktop users have no need for more than 640kb of memory. :-)

    the 'slide

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  8. Re:my favorite line by Isldeur · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>Critics -- notably Intel -- argue that most desktop users have no need for 64-bit processing.

    >then to be redundant, Intel should face up to the fact that most users have no need for 2.8 Ghz processors.

    Ah Grasshopper! You've obviously never tried to compile the KDE source tree.

  9. Apple to buy, but not use by banky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cupertino, CA - Apple Computer (AAPL) is expected to buy a record number of the new "PowerPC 970" CPU, but in a suprise move, isn't expected to actually do anything with them.

    "We're doing great with the iPod, the warehouse is totally empty," said Apple VP Phil "All your Jaguar" Schiller. "Steve thought it would look more lived-in if we had some big boxes of stuff in there."

    Steve Jobs was hard at work developing a new way to mispronounce the name of the new CPU and was unavailable for comment.

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  10. Re:Power 4, here we come by PsychoSpunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    but when it does, imagine a dual processor of these (with of course, quartz extreme pushing all of the video over to the Graphics processor).

    and then... imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...

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  11. Narrowing it down... by ebuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine that thoses Apple computers will only be sold to the inhabited continents.

  12. Reminds me... by trudyscousin · · Score: 3, Funny

    "it's unclear where Apple is going to actually *use* said chip"

    This reminded me of an exchange from the animated series "Freakazoid," when Douglas Douglas received a long-coveted computer chip for Christmas.

    "Can I put it in, Mom?" he asked.

    "Okay, but only in your computer."

    (Well, I thought it was just as silly...)

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  13. Re:only 1.8 GHz? by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can just make up speeds like AMD to account for the slower clock.

    Mac 3600+, etc.

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  14. Re:Enough is Enough by Mononoke · · Score: 1, Funny
    Is there nothing else to really talk about other then some proprietary piece of equipment.
    Sure. Let's try a few topics:
    • Itanium (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • Windows (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • AMD (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • Sun (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • nVidia (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • Slashdot (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • Java (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • Diablo II (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • BeOS (Nope. Proprietary.)
    • ...
    Damn, I think we're stuck.

    (Hint: Look up the word.)

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  15. Forget the cluster... by ebuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    This kind of technology can be more easily implemented by burning porn directly into ROM reducing lookup times to almost the speed of the bus.

    Apple could appeal to the hardware hackers with offers of ROM upgrades packaged in convienent easy-to-bend pinned chips using tightly machined push-down sockets. Withing months there would be a "Burn your own Porn ROM howto" and instructions on how to mill the pin thickness down to permit easy insertion!

    (puns, unfortunately, were intended)

  16. Re:Well... by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    All that it needs is the layers above it to run on PC hardware and it'll work.

    I don't think it would be too hard to do, either...

    Awesome! Get right on that...
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  17. Re:no proprietary RAM by killmenow · · Score: 2, Funny
    I would guess that IBM would build a multichannel switched memory interface to DDR SDRAM.
    But what would IBM call such a MultiChannel Architecture?
  18. Re:Go back to SQL school... by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 5, Funny
    DELETE FROM users WHERE userID = 170660;
    1 rows affected (0.01 sec)

    ;)

  19. Re:It hasn't been said, by dbrutus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, in this case, it would be an Appleseed cluster.

    Imagine clustering for anybody.