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IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon 64
(old news - 11:14PM Thursday Feb 12 2004)
"... And according to MR editor-in-chief Peter Glaskowsky, Intel and AMD had better watch out.

The 970FX is the 90nm die-shrink of the original 130nm PowerPC 970, launched back in October 2002 and finally shipped last summer, most notably inside Apple's Power Mac G5.

IBM is expected to launch the 970FX formally next week at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), along with its PowerTune technology, which adds SpeedStep-style clock frequency scaling that can synchronise across multiple processors. "

Full story here:
»www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/35537.html

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Carbon Unit
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proprietary

maybe, but its not compatible with my current wares

God
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Re: proprietary

omg please ... when we can get a g5 processor cheap enough to compete with an x86 based computer, and have macs around the same price as the x86 based system we can talk .. Maybe the g5 will get to the same clockspeed as my old computer?

C0deZer0
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970"FX" ?

Obviously a rip on the idea behind the Athlon 64 there. (sorry, had to do it ).

Still though, good news for Apple at least.

Mike
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Re: 970"FX" ?

I thought AMD ripped off nvidia?

C0deZer0
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Re: 970"FX" ?

Good question.

At this point, it's almost like "who ripped off who?"

DSLarggggg
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Re: 970"FX" ?

FX Don't tell me MAC will make a comeback
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Mike
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Re: 970"FX" ?

MACs have always been popular. You can find them at nearly every bank outside. Maybe inside your NIC too!

DSLarggggg
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Re: 970"FX" ?

lmao
elitedude

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Re: 970"FX" ?


bla bla, even if the cpu is powerfull, theres like no games on mac. That will force people to continue to buy p4s and a64s. Good news for mac fan boys tho.

Mike
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Re: 970"FX" ?

This isn't 1997 anymore, you know.

3SGTE
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power consumption

25 watts power consumption!
Wow! that is very good.

My mind boggles at the possibilities for notebooks!
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juicelee
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Re: power consumption

It's almost a given for a powerbook based on at least a G5 1.6 GHz chip.
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