PowerPC 970 Presentation PDF

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Rocketman

The link still worked for me at 9AM EST!

You can go here and grab it if you need to. At least until they block it for excessive bandwidth use.

Originally posted by Telomar
You can go here and grab it if you need to. At least until they block it for excessive bandwidth use.

I've put it up on my iDisk to, it can also be got from here if Telomars stops working. ;)

Good Reading but it sure seems it could be a while before the 970 power mac will be in my house!~( I'll wait till at least rev. 2 before I buy.

Thanks for posting that,

Joe

Originally posted by Macrumors
Volume shipments of the processor are expected in late 2003.

So what exactly constitutes volume shipment?

Could we see a smaller volume initially going to Apple for PowerMacs and or Xserve, and then, a volume shipment going into the other lineups and Linux based systems towards the end of 2003? In effect the current top-of-the-line G4 would be for the consumer lineup and PowerBooks come January?

The sooner the better. Could 'late 2003' be Q3, or is it gunna be in Q4?

I don't see anything about double floating point within their VMX (the 162 instruction SIMD) in the document. That's not particularly good.

However, it does say it does have hardware double floating point support, just hope it doesn't come from the G4 which is from 60xe (:o).

I am confused...according to this, when would it be likely to see this processor integrated into a new line or revision of Powerbooks? Also, how much faster will this processor really be than the current G4's (if you were comparing both processors at the same Mhz, theoretically)? And is another Powerbook G4 speedup likely before this processor is integrated? If so, can anyone make an educated guess as to about when?

-Cameron

Originally posted by cjerens
I am confused...according to this, when would it be likely to see this processor integrated into a new line or revision of Powerbooks? Also, how much faster will this processor really be than the current G4's (if you were comparing both processors at the same Mhz, theoretically)? And is another Powerbook G4 speedup likely before this processor is integrated? If so, can anyone make an educated guess as to about when?

-Cameron

I wouldn't even be thinking about the PowerBook, these will have to make it ito the PowerMac first.