PPC 970 Confirmed for Apple?

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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Re:64 != (2*32)

[Tumbleweed]

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... :)

1.8 GHz per second

[tm2b]

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!