IBM PowerPC 970 Architecture

riclewis writes "Hannibal from Ars Technica offers an explanation of some of the internals of the new IBM chip. It's certainly more powerful than anything on the desktop now, but by the time it's released a year from now, it looks to be middle-of-the-pack (which could still be a step up for Apple...) This excitement over the early release of hardware specs kinda reminds me of all the hype surrounding the Sony's Emotion Engine when it was introduced a couple years ago. In fact, some are suggesting the PPC 970 chip might be closely related to the PS3's 'Cell' processor..."

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Apples and oranges

[gnillort]

"...but by the time it's released a year from now, it looks to be middle-of-the-pack (which could still be a step up for Apple...)"

As has been well-documented, Macs perform just as well as Windows machines. The slower clock speed of PowerPC compared to Intel is made up by the lack of code bloat is Mac OS compated to Windows. Also, PowerPC and Intel/AMD are two different types of processing, so they can't really even be compared.

Re:PS3 apple?

[jfedor]

So, where's the Xbox emulator for the PC?

-jfedor

Ars Technica

[BitGeek]

Slashdot quoting Ars Technica, as if it were a source, is like third graders quoting comic book heros.

Except that third graders are expected to be at that level of maturity, while slashdot purports to be a society of engineers.

The average slashdot reader who's job is watching over a bunch of linux boxes to make sure they are doing their job, and who has no design responsibilities, can only program with scripting languages and doesn't understand basic processor architecture is not who we should turn to for analysis of the new IBM chip.

But that person would STILL Be more qualified than the average Ars Technica writer.

Ars Technica- The technical education of a 13 year old girl, the attitude of a 16 year old boy and the FUD orientation of Microsoft.

Let the FUD begin.