[ale] RE: New Apple chip

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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The Register reports this morning on Job's announcement of
the new G5:

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"The 970 will run at up to 2GHz with a 1GHz frontside bus. Describing its 
"new architecture", Jobs said it has been designed from the ground up for 
SMP - Apple will offer single and dual-processor systems, he added, with 
both chips connected to the system controller chip across independent 
buses. The chip can handle up to 215 in-flight instructions. It has 512KB 
of L2 cache, but no L3 cache support.

"He also called the 970 the "first 64-bit desktop processor", which may gall 
AMD fans, though then Opteron was designed for servers and workstations, 
not desktop PCs.

"Apple's first 970-based desktops will support up to 8GB of 400MHz DDR SDRAM 
across a 128-bit (dual channel) 6.4GBps bus. They will offer AGP 8x Pro, 
133MHz PCI-X slots, 1.5GBps Serial ATA with independent interfaces to each 
drive, digital optical and analog audio I/O, Firewire 800 and 400, Gigabit 
Ethernet, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, and USB 2.0, as per the 'officially' 
leaked specification. In addition, Jobs said all models would ship with 
Apple's DVD-R SuperDrive."

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Full story is here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31382.html


Sean


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