More on the PowerPC 970

functor writes "Ars Technica's Jon Stokes has a treatise up covering the microarchitecture of the high-performance 64-bit PowerPC 970 microprocessor, due to be released by the end of the year, that goes over in detail how this chip is put together, and how we can expect it to perform. This is the follow-up to Stokes' article detailing the PPC 970's design philosophy. 'It appears to hold quite a bit of promise in bolstering Apple's currently almost obsolescent product line, and it appears to have been designed explictly to fulfil Apple's requirements. To say the least, the second half of this year looks to be pretty interesting as Apple's product line promises to become competitive performance-wise with IA-32 and x86-64-based PCs again.''

Comments

Worst timing ever

[Space Coyote]

Why this had to be posted the morning before my presentation to my supervizor is a clear indication that the universe is against me.

Time to hide my network cable until the end of the day.

Hehe

[A Proud American]

This reminds me of an old joke one of my professors told once. Hope you don't mind that I share:

Q: Why might IBM change the name of their 970 chip?
A: Because they added 620 to the IBM 350 and got 969.999983605.

Re:competitive, sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

64-bit extension of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit micro with full compatibility to an 8-bit redesign of a 4-bit processor

...used by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition

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