| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2001 at 10:13:32 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Whizzy CPUs |
hi,
> Fully 64 bit, pipeline isn't much longer than G4 and they seem to be
> interested in making desktop versions (i.e. the high clock frequecy
> ones so Apple can convince the Mhz-morons that a PPC is as fast as a
> x86).
its nice...but i'm afraid that soon the 'MHz' war is going to be 'dumbed
down' . AMD are set to start marketting their CPUs as Cyrix did....with a
'realtive' rating instead. ie lets say the 1.6GHz is equal to the 2GHz
PIV...in this case, the AMD chip is to be sold as a PIV-2GHz part...even
though its running at just 1.6GHz.... its not nice, but it'll stop the
current silly goings on. perhaps Motorola could follow suit? We'd
suddenly have 3MHz equivalents ;-)
but yes, the large jump in PPC clockspeed is certainly refreshing on the
PowerPC front sheeesh! 1.5GHz of G5 power!
alan
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