Yesterday, “IBM announced two new lines of its PowerPC 970 processor, better known as the G5, and they’re impressive beasts,” Andrew Orlowski writes for The Register.
Orlowski writes, “A new, low-power 970FX consumes between 13W and 16W at frequencies of 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz. That’s more than the 10W that the Freescale MPC7448 found in today’s 1.5Ghz PowerBooks consumes, but around half the maximum power consumption of Intel’s Pentium M, which powers today’s Centrino laptops. IBM is also unveiled the dual-core 970MP codenamed ‘Antares’, at clock frequencies of 1.4GHz to 2.5GHz. Each core has 1MB of L cache, and one core can be turned off to save power.”
Orlowski speculates that these new processors will be the last PowerPC-based Macs that Apple will produce before switching to Intel-based processors.
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