“Microsoft’s choice of 3.2GHz PowerPC processors in its new Xbox 360 could suggest significantly faster Macs when the console ships at Christmas,” Macworld UK writes. “Microsoft’s newly-unveiled console is powered by a custom-made IBM PowerPC-based three-core chip running at 3.2GHz, and supported by 512MB of GDDR3 RAM. The Register last year claimed these customised processors to be based on IBM’s PowerPC 976 chip, itself based on IBM’s Power 5 architectire and fabricated at 65 nanometres.”
Macworld UK writes, “Apple’s G5 processors are also variants of IBM’s Power architecture, and Microsoft’s stated intention to ship consoles equipped with 3.2GHz processors by Christmas suggests faster Macs by then too.”
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