Apple G6 - link to apple.com
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Stridder44
Universal Traveler
One day...
Arden
Where mah "any" keys at?
You're not just trying to stir up trouble again, are you? I heard that the G6 will be Apple's name for the PPC 990, which is supposed to be head-and-shoulders above the 970.Androo said:OMG THE G6!
Who cares.... i heard that a new chip is being made and its not gonna be THAT much faster than the G5
RacerX
Old Rhapsody User
Apple called the following models G4s:
Considering that, I highly doubt that Apple is going to call the PPC 970 a G5 and the PPC 990 a G6. It is far more likely that Apple will stay with G5 until something major comes along, like Apple moving to a 64 bit only processor, before jumping to G6.
Or don't you guys remember all the rumors about how the MPC 7450 was supposed to be the G5... only to be just another G4.
- MPC 7400
- MPC 7410
- MPC 7450
- MPC 7455
Considering that, I highly doubt that Apple is going to call the PPC 970 a G5 and the PPC 990 a G6. It is far more likely that Apple will stay with G5 until something major comes along, like Apple moving to a 64 bit only processor, before jumping to G6.
Or don't you guys remember all the rumors about how the MPC 7450 was supposed to be the G5... only to be just another G4.
No news, no rumours. We _know_ that the 970FX is the 'next' (well, almost current now) processor. The best news about this one is that it dissipates far less heat than the 970 at the same clock speed. And that it has something like a speed-stepping technology.
The processor _after_ that has been rumoured as 980, 990, 975... I guess we'll hear more about this when the first IBM papers leak. ;-)
The processor _after_ that has been rumoured as 980, 990, 975... I guess we'll hear more about this when the first IBM papers leak. ;-)
speedfreak
Registered
WhaT DOES THE G STAND FOR ANYWAY?
RacerX said:
By the time we reach the 990 designator, it'll be a G6. The differences in the chips will be way too many not to rename. But then again, as with everything else Apple does, we could be surprised. We'll have to wait and see the 970FX, and later 980 series first though.
They are two things that have been leaked from IBM:
90 nm PPC970 (970FX): faster and/or lower-power
dual 970 core (980 ??): depending on the number of arithmetic units, may be much faster than the original 970, and will help all multiprocessing (and multiprocessing is a base of UNIX - therefore give a better responsiveness)
The other leak is a faster access to memory, but we don't know which proeccor will profit from it.
90 nm PPC970 (970FX): faster and/or lower-power
dual 970 core (980 ??): depending on the number of arithmetic units, may be much faster than the original 970, and will help all multiprocessing (and multiprocessing is a base of UNIX - therefore give a better responsiveness)
The other leak is a faster access to memory, but we don't know which proeccor will profit from it.
Krevinek
Evil PPC Tweaker
RacerX said:
Why ever jump to 64-bit only? The PPC spec was designed to be a 64-bit chipset with a 32-bit instruction subset. A chip following the spec could implement the 32-bit subset, or the entire 32/64-bit spec. If there was a major architecture change ahead in the manner you hint, we are talking something that goes beyond the PPC and is a whole new chip from the ground up which is likely to be weakly backwards compatible, or not backwards compatible at all.
Right now, I expect developments to be based around 'HyperThreading'-like improvements, multi-core chips, and the like. Those are becoming more important than the number of bits or if we have a vector unit or not. After all, it was only the inclusion of AltiVec that made the G4 a G4 instead of a G3, who says a multi-core 970-based chip won't be the thing that makes it a G6?
Krevinek
Evil PPC Tweaker
I can give a Lombard or Pismo G3 Powerbook a G4 chip, because the processor is on a daughter card that can easily be swapped out. I cannot swap out an iBook processor for a G4 chip without also swapping out the entire motherboard, because the iBook has the CPU on the board, making it nearly impossible to swap just the processor without damage.