Motorola to Have Rapid I/O in All Future Processors

Anonymous Cow writes "This PDF from Motorola states that all future processors from Motorola will have rapid I/O (page 32). Further down (page 34) it claims that that Motorola has got a dualcore PPC processor in development. No launch dates are given." It also notes that they could achieve 3+ GHz, without significant increase in power consumption.

Comments

Nice Healthy Competition

[Coyote67]

This is certainly good news for the ppc crowd. Competition never hurts and imho is one of the major reasons ppcs never overtook x86s. If the new motos can perform as promised, apple could find space in their product line for them, maybe we'll see moto based ibooks/powerbooks and ibm based tower systems.

and this will be released when...

[Luxviaest]

our sun goes supernova with Moto's track record. Seriously folks, when was the last time Moto actually followed their roadmap?

Motorola sees the writing on the wall

[SensitiveMale]

First motorola removed all macs from their offices.

Then they basically fuck Apple and all mac users by ignoring G4 development for years.

Apple finally gets pissed enough and goes to IBM for their processors.

Motorola finally learns how important the G4 processor is to their bottom line after posting enormous losses year after year.

IBM values a steady profit and their business practices show this.

This is a smokescreen from motorola to try and keep Apple's business.

I hope Apple tells them to fuck off.

Re:Motorola sees the writing on the wall

[snuffdiddy23]

i don't blame them for not wanting others to boot their OS. they put nothing for security on the OS to prevent piracy, but they put something on the machine. if your machine is too old or too new to run an OS that you do not have free legitimate rights to you will not be able to run it in most cases, alot more secure than a serial number

it is not like we see cheap SPARC or MIPS systems out there either, gotta go to the big boys for the big bad systems, anyone can make an INTEL box.

Re:Motorola sees the writing on the wall

[clifyt]

That would be a nice sentiment, other than stats showed that the clone market didn't increase sales of mac capible machines and meant losing a large source of their income from folks buying their 'Macs' from other companies -- and then having to play support when the clones didn't work the way they should have ruining the reputation of Apple.

Either way, Mot wasn't selling any more chips...

Re:Motorola sees the writing on the wall

[rgraham]

Well, Apple's hands aren't clean either. They axed the clone market upon which clobbered demand (or at least the prospect of future demand) for their chips. If I was Moto I'd be pissed too.

Yes and no. The problem with the Mac clones is that they weren't increasing the overall number of Mac sold, but were instead taking away from Apple's sales.

Motorola was damn near the death of Apple

[SengirV]

Yawn. Why work on the G4 now Motorola? You've gotten this far with putting zero effert into it.

Here is the real roadmap:
1. Apple busts their hump working with IBM to get the 970 out the door.

2. Apple pays lipservice to Motorola until the entire line transitions to 970, 980, etc...

3. The second the entire line is free of the anchor known as Motorola's G4, Apple blasts Motorola for their ineptitude.

Will the total $ gained/lost by IBM/Motorola mean all that much to either company? No.

Will IBM's commitment to Apple help Apple? YES.

Did Motorola's stepping on their dicks for so long hurt Apple? YES

Re:Conspiracy theory #9

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably not, but maybe once Motorola realized that they'd be losing Apple's business to IBM in the not-too-distant future they decided that the PC market does matter to them after all.

Re:for the embedded market?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes it is for the embedded market. The slide on page seven says it all. They are trying to find a balance between frequency, power, and performance. For the PC/Mac market the emphesis should be on performance followed by power and then frequency.

The reason being that you can argue better performance for a lower frequency, as Apple has been. Battery life is also more important than frequency. But, performance is king and the "balanced architecture" approach has been proven, by Motorola, not to work in the personal computer market.

Re:Motorola still screwing Apple

[paradesign]

apples already use AMD chips, just not for the CPU. so of course theyre talking to them, its how you build a system. id only imaging what it would turn out like if they did it all telepathicly.

but seriously, you must be a real NOOB to think that Apple would switch away from PPC, either that your one of teh ones that wants OSX on x86, ugg. if anything theyll launch a Power4 based Xserve, but even that is highly unlikely.

Re:Motorola still screwing Apple

[andrewski]

To take it to another level, they should go to AMD and use their "Clawhammer" for the Xserve.

Not unless Motorola and IBM both go out of business suddenly. The 970 and obviously the Moto are both PowerPCs, and the 970 is a 64 bit machine that runs existing 32 bit PPC code natively also. There is no way that Apple is going to involve another architecture unless it is their only course of action.

Binary compatibility of software is essential for Apple. Additionally, the PowerPC is a beautiful, proven design, unlike the 64 bit Intel and AMD chips.

Re:Buses...

[jjhlk]

I agree with you, but you're probably missing something...

I've had a 1200Mhz Athlon for 2 years, and it is fast enough to run everything I need too. But I play a fair amount of computer games, and while I can handle everything so far (with only an 8500LE) by the end of this year the next-gen first person shooters are going to be out. If I move to any faster video card my CPU is going to bottleneck my frame rate.

So if Apple can put out a computer with a cpu at around 1.6ghz /w Radeon 9700 I think it would handle games like Half-life 2 much better. The only problem then is actually get Half-life 2 to be ported to the Mac...

I can't like Macs without my games! (Halflife2!)

Re:Turn me on, dead man

[Alan Partridge]

hmmm...

Out of the 7 million G4s that Motorola have manufactured thus far, 5.5 million of them have been bought by Apple Computer.

YOU try to figure out who SHOULD be more important to them.