I hope this is true!!!!

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I read this at thinksecret.com
Steve Jobs has very ambitious plans for Apple's processor strategy. He recently said "We've been stuck with the G4 for over two years, that's too long". His intentions are that the G5 have a life of 18 months in the Pro models. He wants the G6 to hit initial silicon between next December, and February 2003, and release it in mid-2003. Initially, the G6 will be fabbed with a 0.1 micron process moving to .07(.065) micron. It will be built upon the HIP 8.0 process, which is still not quite finalized. It will feature Altivec II, which promises to at least double performance of the current Altivec. Early estimates are that it will contain over 100 million gates. The G6 will be introduced at between 4.5 and 5Ghz and scale up to 10 Ghz.

This week Apple has committed itself to going beyond the G6 to build a G7, and maybe beyond. Apple is looking at Motorola's recently announced Gallium Arsenide technology to give this chip insanely high clock speeds. Talk is the G7 could go as high as 20 Ghz. The G7 would debut in early to mid 2005. This renewed hope with the PowerPc architecture is in light of the fact that Cisco Systems has committed to being a significant customer of G5's for their high-end routers, and Silicon Graphics being in the last stages of abandoning development on its R16000 and R18000 processors as a cost-cutting measure. It looks very likely it will sign a commitment with Apple, IBM and Motorola within a month. It has prototype G5 chips in a prototype workstation of theirs, and is hard at work developing Irix 7.0 for the G5.
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i think he told him to shut up because prophecizing on a chip's speed that doesn't exist and won't for at least a year is bit pointless....

i like rumors and all... but talking about the g7 is kinda like saying.... "man that Playstation 5 is gonna super fresh!"
 
It's a rumor's section, he did post where he found it. It is not he who is profesizing, but thinksecret.com, if you wish to tell someone to shut up tell thinksecret :p dont shoot the messenger lol.
 
well.. senne is my name, yesyes! and SENNE.senne is my name twice!

I said: Please, shut up, because it just can't be that we jump from a G4 to a G7 and from 2x800 to 5ghz (compaq is making a computer with 4Ghz)... Let the rumors be a little normal...



SENNE.senne
 
oops, sorry dude, i got a little confused there...
see, you've got the same avatar as another guy around here: soapvox... so i just looked at the avatar without reading the name and thought it was a post by soapvox and he was saying "SENNE.senne"...
sorry, the fact that that is your alias renders my question utterly rendundant... so just ignore me. :D
SITHIOUS.sithious
 
Whoa, someone call ghostbusters. His alter "evil" ego has manifested itself, and it stands for everything saopvox does not.:D
 
Actually (if I recall correctly) Steve Jobs has come forward informing everyone that there is NOT going to be any more "g" anythings! Last I heard they were working on something completely new and letting go of the "g" projects. Anyway I'm dreaming I guess, late all.
 
Originally posted by Trip
Actually (if I recall correctly) Steve Jobs has come forward informing everyone that there is NOT going to be any more "g" anythings! Last I heard they were working on something completely new and letting go of the "g" projects. Anyway I'm dreaming I guess, late all.
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If he had anouced that, then the rumor sites wouldn't be posting these G5 rumors, but mabye you heard this extremely recently.
 
I talked a little with Phil Schiller in Apple today, he had enourmous plans for the new Mac OS XXV, a 512 bit OS optimized for the new G8 chips that'll ship early to mid-2018 in the all-new YottaTeraPowerMacs featuring speeds up to 378.97 gigaflops :rolleyes:

:D :D
 
Originally posted by Trip
Actually (if I recall correctly) Steve Jobs has come forward informing everyone that there is NOT going to be any more "g" anythings! Last I heard they were working on something completely new and letting go of the "g" projects.
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Something like:
We take the chip that was intended to be the 'G5', and name it completely different? :confused:
Whow, that would really be thinking different, Stevie... :p
 
Originally posted by Tigger

Something like:
We take the chip that was intended to be the 'G5', and name it completely different? :confused:
Whow, that would really be thinking different, Stevie... :p
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What about "Ironium II" or "Pentiblast 5"? :rolleyes:
 
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