[ale] RE: New Apple chip

[Christopher Fowler]

Rebuttle:

http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:13:21AM -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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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.
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> "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.
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> "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:
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31382.html
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> 
> Sean
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