IBM 'Readying Dual-Core G5'

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
IBM is preparing a dual-core version of its 90nm PowerPC 970FX processor - aka the G5. Codenamed Antares, the chip will be delivered - likely in sample form - to Apple later this summer.
So claim "well-placed" but unnamed sources cited by Think Secret. In fact, the content of the story comes from a series of posts on the website's forum, and it isn't clear if Think Secret knows the identity of the forum contributor - or is just assuming the source is well-placed. Either way, the chip, to be formally called the PowerPC 970MP, is said to contain two 970 cores each with its own AltiVec/Velocity Engine SIMD unit and 1MB of L2, up from the 970FX's 512KB, but still without L3 cache support. It will be fabbed using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials, but that's no great surprise given IBM's well-established support for the technique. The die size is 13.23 x 11.63mm, and it is not pin-compatible with existing 970 and 970FX chips.
Source: The Register

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2004
    Oh boy! Another slow-as-frozen-molasses PPC CPU that runs as hot as hell. :thumbsup: to IBM :rolleyes:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    So here we are on the verge of the first desktop dual-core chip.. I suppose we'll find that crappiness is exponential and this CPU will run 50% slower than its miserable friends.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2004
    Is it possible to run 50% slower than a G5?

    Oh wait, I guess you'd have a G4 then, huh? *snicker*
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