Motorola to Boost 0.13-micron PowerPCs

Anonymous Cow writes "From The Register: 'Speculation that Motorola may soon cease to be a supplier of processors to Apple may be premature. The chip maker yesterday said it had successfully implemented low-k dielectric materials in its 0.18 micron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processors, bringing an estimated 20 per cent speed bump to the PowerPC line. Motorola expects to roll out the process on its 0.13 micron chips this month...'"

Comments

Re:Mac Zealot Translator

[Erik K. Veland]

Heh. You are so funny.

Unfortunally your attempts real points through (sub-par) humor fall between your cheap shots, your self-contradiction and personal attacks against a non-homogenous group.

Re:Apple's problem

[the_2nd_coming]

umm...I guess you never heard of the PPC970 that IBM has made?

the 970 will be craked out at up to 2.5 GHz later in its life and the 980 will place it above 3Ghz.

top speed only matters to you small dicked geeks who think there is a diffrence between 1.5 GHz and 3 Ghz.

hear is a hint....it does not matter any more. software can only go so damn fast and then it is no longer nessisary to make it faster....100 ms of latency in starting a program is nothing!!!

here is a good tip for you: get a better Bus going from the cpu to the hard drive.....get more RAM....get a faster hard drive....get a faster Optical drive....

just get better periferal devices....you will see a bigger speed bump from that than from your proc becasue your proc still has to wait for the data to get to it and if you are bottle necked by your HD speed, a jump in proc speed will not help you...infact you will probably just have more idle time on the proc which makes it usless durring that time anyway.