90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @05:00AM from the flexing-your-muscles dept.

dmdimon sent in linkage to a Forbes story on the upcoming PPC chips and notes "IBM is said to be ready to deliver a new version of its PowerPC processor to Apple by the end of this year in from sizes of 130 nanometers to 90 nanometers... Apple CEO Steve Jobs has already gone on the record saying that the G5 computer will contain PowerPC chips that run at 3 GHz by the summer of 2004. A mid-step between the current systems, which top out with two chips running at 2 GHz, and systems with chips as fast as 2.6 GHz would be a logical move come January..."

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Re:Great for consumers by tommck · 2003-12-23 05:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Except for that whole... pretty much locked into a single OS on ppc (unless using Linux, of course... oh wait... I'm on slashdot...)

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