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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=908
IBM''s Power4: Not in our future?
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 6th 2002
A report has surfaced stating that IBM pitched the chip to Apple, but the latter
wasn''t interested
XLR8YourMac is carrying a reader report that states rather emphatically that IBM''s
Power4 processors won''t be used in future PowerMacs.
Here''s a quote direct from their site:
Folks,
I attended a briefing today on IBM''s high performance computing technology, which is
hinged on their Power4 CPU (this CPU has awesome performance in the various real-world
benchmarks I have seen). After the briefing, I asked the presenter (a chief
engineering manager from IBM) about the Power4 derivative for desktops and low end
servers to be announced in October. You may recall that there has been speculation
that this CPU would find its way into PowerMacs in the future. Well, it sounds like
this CPU is not in Apple''s future -- the "over 160" vector instructions are not
AltiVec (even though AltiVec has 162 instructions), and there are technical issues
that would prevent AltiVec from ever marrying with Power4 or its successors.
Furthermore, the guy came right out and said that they have pitched the desktop Power4
to Apple, but Apple was not interested.
So, although Power4-based PowerMacs seemed like a promising (and likely) possibility,
it looks like it won''t happen. I guess we will have to wait and see what Apple has in
store for the future . . . .
Craig
--
Dr. Craig Hunter
NASA Langley Research Center
AAAC/Configuration Aerodynamics Branch
Oh well, it seems we''ll have to look elsewhere (i.e. Moto, sob...) for dish on the
shape of PowerMacs to come.
As is always the case, take this and all unconfirmed "rumors" with a large grain of
salt.
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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=908
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