Freescale Unveils Dual-Core PowerPC Architecture

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Freescale, Motorola's semiconductor subsidiary until July of this year, announced first details about its dual-core core strategy for the e600 PowerPC platform. Each processor will be clocked with more than 1.5 GHz, the company said Tuesday.
As AMD and Intel, Freescale also takes advantage of a dual-core approach to increase computing performance and limit increased power needs. The company unveiled its technology approach based on the 90nm SOI e600 core at the Smart Networks Developer Forum held in Frankfurt, Germany. Named the MPC8641D Dual Core processor, both cores will work at more than 1.5 GHz, integrate two 1-MByte L2 caches (four times the cache currently available in MPC74xx PowerPC PowerPC chips) and dual AltiVec vector processing engines. The two cores are connected through an MPX bus at clocked at 667 MHz. In addition, the MPC8641D comes with an integrated dual memory controller that supports DDR and DDR2 memories.
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide
Sign In or Register to comment.