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PPC 970 Confirmed for Apple?

Posted by pudge on from the i-want-one-in-my-ipod dept.

batboy78 writes "In what perhaps is the first 'official' confirmation that IBM's PowerPC 970's will be used by Apple, BusinessWeek claims that IBM has confirmed that it's developing a new set of chips for the Mac: 'IBM says the new Apple chip will be of the 64-bit variety, which means it can process twice as much information per cycle as existing 32-bit chips.'" CT The article has been updated to make the confirmation seem... well, far less comfirming.

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  1. 64bit by labratuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    IBM says the new Apple chip will be of the 64-bit variety, which means it can process twice as much information per cycle as existing 32-bit chips.

    Argh! Head... going... to... explode...

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    1. Re:64bit by cpeterso · · Score: 4, Funny


      By the time Quark finally releases QuarkXPress for Mac OS X, Apple will have released the 64-bit Mac OS X on the PPC970.

      Q: How long will it take for Quark to make QuarkXPress' code 64-bit ready?

      A: Never.

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  2. So... by tinrobot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean my G3 isn't a supercomputer anymore?

  3. Re:64 != (2*32) by infinite9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok.. I wish people would get this through thier heads. A 64 bit chip is _NOT_ inherently faster than a 32 bit chip

    Yeah, but how many libraries of congress can it fit in a volkswagen?

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  4. Re:64 != (2*32) by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no, son, the standard is "on the head of a pin", not "in a Volkswagen"! :)

    Volkswagens are units of measurements for sizes of asteroids that are about to impact Earth.

    Other measurements in this system:

    % of the width of a human hair
    Length of a football field
    Length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool
    Equivalent # of bowls to 1 bowl of Colon Blow (or Super Colon Blow) cereal

    And you thought _metric_ was cool... :)

  5. 1.8 GHz per second by tm2b · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was more intrigued by the "1.8 GHZ per second" claim.

    1.8 Billion instructions per second per second. It's about time that somebody made an accelerating chip - way to go, IBM!

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  6. Re:Confirmation? by Rosyna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Confirmation could be the IBM logo stamped on the 601 PPC chip in the first power macs.

  7. Nice tie in, quark and this 64 bit chip... by weave · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe the new chip will be used to explain away why Quark took so long. Perhaps they skipped development for 32 bit OS X and concentrate on the 64 bit processor, etc, etc...

    As in, it'll be announced that Quark is available, but only on the new 64-bit power macs, driving the sales of both.

  8. Re:Me, Too! by grahamlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm posting this on a ZX Spectrum via home-rolled TCP/IP stack. Do I win a 12" powerbook?