The power3 and power4 chips are a varient of the PowerPC architecture. the PowerPC chips that everyone is familiar with (603,604,750 etc.) that IBM makes are done on the East Coast, burlington,Vt or Poughkipsie, NY. (somewhere out there)
The power3 and power4 chips are designed in Austin, Tx. so, they are completely different teams.
The Power name is now just a name. The PowerPC architecture was developed by IBM and Motorola to compete with Intel and it was based off of IBM's existing Power architecture.(Power, Power2, Power2SC are examples of the power chips)
Although IBM makes PowerAS chips (AS/400) PowerRS and Power chips (RS/6000) and PowerPC chips(RS/6000, mac) they are all essential powerpc architecture chips. but, they are also all different. they are designed with specific tasks in mind.
F.Y.I. The nintendo gekko is being developed on the east coast.
it is not the chip for the new nintendo. this is the "Gigaprocessor" the nintendo thing is the Gekko. This will run AIX and OS/400(maybe linux in the distant future). It is 64-bit. I believe IBM only has linux running on their 32-bit systems that are based on their PowerPC chips that are similar to Motorola's. (the 603, 604, 750 etc.) PowerPC is an architecture based on IBM's Power architecture some time ago and was developed with Motorola. Motorola has nothing like this in the works. This will not ever be in a Macintosh. They are actually very far along on the design. The problem is that the die is huge and sucks a lot of power. 2001 seems reasonable because a while back EET reported it would be out in 2000.
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The power3 and power4 chips are a varient of the PowerPC architecture. the PowerPC chips that everyone is familiar with (603,604,750 etc.) that IBM makes are done on the East Coast, burlington,Vt or Poughkipsie, NY. (somewhere out there)
The power3 and power4 chips are designed in Austin, Tx. so, they are completely different teams.
The Power name is now just a name. The PowerPC architecture was developed by IBM and Motorola to compete with Intel and it was based off of IBM's existing Power architecture.(Power, Power2, Power2SC are examples of the power chips)
Although IBM makes PowerAS chips (AS/400) PowerRS and Power chips (RS/6000) and PowerPC chips(RS/6000, mac) they are all essential powerpc architecture chips. but, they are also all different. they are designed with specific tasks in mind.
F.Y.I. The nintendo gekko is being developed on the east coast.
it is not the chip for the new nintendo. this is the "Gigaprocessor" the nintendo thing is the Gekko.
This will run AIX and OS/400(maybe linux in the distant future).
It is 64-bit. I believe IBM only has linux running on their 32-bit systems that are based on their PowerPC chips that are similar to Motorola's. (the 603, 604, 750 etc.)
PowerPC is an architecture based on IBM's Power architecture some time ago and was developed with Motorola.
Motorola has nothing like this in the works. This will not ever be in a Macintosh.
They are actually very far along on the design. The problem is that the die is huge and sucks a lot of power. 2001 seems reasonable because a while back EET reported it would be out in 2000.
no, it will run on AS/400 and RS/6000 systems so it will run OS/400 and AIX operating systems. that is if it actually works