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Design Philosophy of the IBM PowerPC 970
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.'"
Get your own!!!
I think I'm seeing double. Do Slashdot editors read their own site?
Will the PPC 970 save Apple? I think it's too little too late. Apple's motherboards really havn't changed much since the B&W G3s, and how old are those, 4 years? Big change is needed *NOW* not in a year if Apple wants to exist for much longer.
Is this not the chip that was a co venture between apple and ibm? Is this also no the chip that apple intended to use? is this also not the chip thats a 'pc' chip built on RISC? Personally I wanna see what this thing can do before damming it or pronounceing apple dead. Its a year from now, the specs could be COMPLETLY different by then
Jesus saves, everyone else takes full damage from the fireball.
I championed your cause at this link but now I'm second-guessing myself.
You seem to have tonal disorder. Try losing the need-to-teach us tone and write as if you were making notes to yourself later. Your writing comes off as scholarly arrogance.
I only say this because your young account is already Karmically challenged
Now who's being condescending . . .
1. Delay as long as possible
2. Put it in a Macintosh case
3. Get Steve Jobs to call it "incredible"
4. Get Ellen Feiss to resurrect the "Think Different" Campaign
5. Price it 200% higher than equivalent Wintel boxes
6. Continue to enforce software patents to frustrate open source programmers, advocates, and users
7. Give another top-of-the-line TiBook to Taco and Hemos so they'll continue to shill for you
8. Profit!
The trolls seem to have infected K5 just as badly as /., except that at /. Rob and staff are actively trying to reduce their destructive effect on communication and the gaming of moderation, while Rusty is too busy being a carpenter just to pay his bills. I like K5, but the claim that S/N is far better at K5 due to some intrinsic nature of the software and community is bullshit. Rob was right, as K5 has grown so has it experienced the same problems as /. while scaling. Some people just suck. The trolls make a good argument in favor of "trusted computing" simply to wipe anonymity off the net. Note the irony of my posting AC.
Hey faggot it sounds like you might get some of that anonymous gay sex from a guy named mfago.
I have a Sun sitting on my desk with 768MB in it now.
I have a laptop running on 512MB now.
Do you seriously think I will shell dough for a "new" chip that can't handle more than 1GB?
Maybe some mac fag would, but real men will demand bigger harder faster more and not be content with Mac fag architecture.