Design Philosophy of the IBM PowerPC 970

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 28, 2002 @09:27AM from the live-new-chips dept.

D.J. Hodge writes "Ars Technica has a very detailed article on the PowerPC 970 up that places the CPU in relation to other desktop CPU offerings, including the G4 and the P4. I think this gets at what IBM is doing: 'If the P4 takes a narrow and deep approach to performance and the G4e takes a wide and shallow approach, the 970's approach could be characterized as wide and deep. In other words, the 970 wants to have it both ways: an extremely wide execution core and a 16-stage (integer) pipeline that, while not as deep as the P4's, is nonetheless built for speed.'"

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unfotunatly Apple is going with Intel instead... by esome · 2002-10-28 09:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

at least according to this amusing article at MacCentral
are you cmdrtaco? by Lethyos · 2002-10-28 10:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

you failed to properly spell "genitals".

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