On 7/21/03 2:50 PM, Mark Benson posted: >On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 06:08 PM, Jeremy Derr wrote: > >> not entirely true. while Motorola does indeed own the rights to the >> Altivec, IBM makes G4s without the Altivec for some of their >> workstations and servers. They've also provided Altivec enabled G4s to >> Apple at least once when Moto's yields were horrendously low. IBM has >> also included the Altivec unit on the G5 - that fact is exactly what >> started all the rumors around the IBM PPC 970 processor. When they >> posted the specs for the 970 and it included Altivec, the Rumor Sites >> went nuts with speculation. > >Firstly I was unaware that the G5 even had Altivec. Secondly, as the >PPC project is a joint venture between Motorola and IBM it seems >logical that IBM at least has rights to produce the G4 pattern, even if >they need to seem express permission to use Altivec.
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