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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. Confirmation? Speculation by mrpull · · Score: 3, Redundant
    Although Apple (AAPL ) won't talk about it, IBM (IBM ) is developing a new set of chips that Apple will likely use to replace theaging Motorola processors used in its G4 line.

    I didn't read anywhere in the article that IBM confirmed Apple will be using PPC970.

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

    Is this new news?

    mr.