As I understand it, IBM is to stop supplying the CPUs to apple,hence the move to AMD.
Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "i4images" Subject: [PRODIG] Didn't realise new g5s were AMD (maybe opterion chips) chipped is this true or rubbish > Newsfactor also has an article stating that Apple will be using > Hypertransport (and an AMD chipset) in the forthcoming Powermas: > "According to preliminary reports -- completely unsubstantiated by Apple > -- the G5 will be turbo-charged with IBM's (NYSE: IBM - news) 64-bit PPC > 970 processor. The system's 64-bit addressing will be a major step past > Apple's current bus architecture. The new machines will also include > AMD's (NYSE: AMD - news) Hypertransport technology, which can push data > down pipes at speeds in the neighborhood of 12.8 Gigabytes per second. " > For the complete article: =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
