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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1357According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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The quote reads:
"Also, Apple sources have recently told Rumours that when Apple ships computers branded as PowerMac G5s next year, they will almost certainly not include Motorola PowerPC 8500 processors, which are the G5 as we know it today -- they will be IBM-built chips based on its Power4 architecture, and may even include multiple cores on a single chip. More on this after Macworld...."
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maar dit lijkt een goede ontwikkeling te kunnen zijn, maar ook een hoop nieuwe problemen op te kunnen leveren. Zou dit de oplossing zijn voor snellere macs?
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Currently the POWER4 ships in a multi-CPU module consisting of 4 chips and a separate L3 cache. Each chip contains 2 individual POWER4 CPUs. They don't however need doubling up to provide performance - In Spec SFP2000 benchmarks a single POWER4 CPU at 1.3GHz outperforms Pentium 4 at 2.53GHz by about 40% (1266 Vs 901).
gulp..
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