PowerPC 970 timetable and "AltiVec"

nope, that's still the original plan, mainly... also, if production of the chip begins in, say, september, you can't expect a shipping product earlier than by the end of the year...
 
Originally posted by fryke
nope, that's still the original plan, mainly... also, if production of the chip begins in, say, september, you can't expect a shipping product earlier than by the end of the year...
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Hmm, perhaps I misunderstood. I was under the impression it was originally envisaged that production of the PowerPC 970 was starting late in 2003, not the Macs themselves. Having this "revised" schedule would mean, yes, the Macs would not be around until late 2003 but it would still be a few months earlier than first thought. I... err... thought.

;)
 
Originally posted by bbloke
The Mac Observer has posted an article concerning the development of IBM's PowerPC 970. Though IBM has previously referred to something similar to AltiVec, it seems they have now explicitly used the AltiVec name for the first time in a newsletter.

http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsletter/dec2002/newproductfocus2.html

Furthermore, the timetable suggests production begins around the second half of 2003, rather than later as originally thought...
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This is GOOOOOOOOOD
 
Re: makes me wonder

quote: from 10/16/02 post by malexgreen


According to this article http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961862.html, they will start selling this chip at the end of next year. If it takes them about 1 year to ramp the high-volumne production of this part in the plant, then they probably will be taping-out by the end of this year. It is remotely possible that if early samples come back clean that they could release Beta parts to Apple for their low volume systems (XServe, high-end PowerMacs) by summer '03. Just a guess Even if P4 is running at 8GHz by that time frame it may not matter because the PPC970 can issue up to 8 instructions per clock and we may have a 64-bit MACOSX, and 64bit MACOSX apps. There are 64-bit versions of Linux running on Itanium, so it must not be too hard to convert open source projects to 64bit chips.
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Originally posted by bbloke
The Mac Observer has posted an article concerning the development of IBM's PowerPC 970. Though IBM has previously referred to something similar to AltiVec, it seems they have now explicitly used the AltiVec name for the first time in a newsletter.

http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsletter/dec2002/newproductfocus2.html

Furthermore, the timetable suggests production begins around the second half of 2003, rather than later as originally thought...
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Who is doing the chipset? IBM, or is there another company?
 
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