PowerPC 970 up to 2.5GHz?

Boy, would that be some good news. It would remove a big perception gap out there, and I bet with Apple's engineering of the new 64 bit motherboard and OS, the effective speed would make it the fastest computer on the market.

I'll have you all know that when the 970 was announced, I believed it would debut at speeds higher than those announced.

Let's hope we Apple folk get some trickle down, quick.

The good thing about another vendor using the same processor as Apple is that if Apple doesn't use the best available, we all will know it (unless the other vendor holds back as well).
ie. IBM G3

If that CPU is anything it's hyped up to be, AND if it is running at those frequencies, wow that is pretty good news for the Apple community. So so sweet.

Last question: when are we gonna see those babies in a mac???

NicoMan

If I recall correctly, IBM at MPF 2002 said that the clockspeed announced there (1.8Ghz) was a conservative estimate.

Seems it was very conservative.

Bring on a 2Ghz 17" Powerbook!

2.5 GHZ nice.

Okay IBM you have the hype around the chip. Time to realease it. :D
Giving all the specs of a chip is very un-PowerPC like.

I like to here the news like that but can someone please give me the chip already? :rolleyes:

If the 1.8 chip is fall(2003)-2004. The 2.5 chips well be (...?) well into 2004-and 2005.

Ech... :(

This chip NEEDS to be put out now.

Edit: it seems I was unclear about the 1.8 chip, sorry.

Originally posted by MrMacman
If the 1.8 chip is fall-2004. The 2.5 chips well be (...?) well into 2004-and 2005.

Ech... :(

This chip [B]NEEDS to be put out now. [/B]

Ummm ... the 1.8 chip is supposed to be fall-2003 to Q1 2004, and that date estimate seems to be moving more towards Fall 2003.

If IBM is claiming the 970 in their soon-to-debut PowerPC Blade servers runs up to 2.5GHz, then you can expect that at most there will be a 3-month delay between general introduction and 2.5GHz parts being available. IBM tends to not play games with press releases.

Therefore, assuming that this press release was not a typo, we can expect 2.5GHz parts no later than this time next year (March 2004).

If the 1.8GHz part gets the estimated SPEC scores, the 2.5GHz part should get approximately (although not exactly) 40% higher scores. This is some very good news. If nothing else, IBM's blade servers should be selling like hotcakes!

OMG.....

Can anybody imagine what will happen if Apple weren't to use these procs????? The hype (we all made) around the PPC 970 is so huge....

Very cool.

I would finally be able to put my goodol' DEC XP1000 to rest, and do serious number-crunching on my desktop OSX!

Wish they come up with cooler (underclocked?) version. I would put one in my Cube.

I hadn't said anything, but had been told that the initial clock speeds would be higher. I'm glad to see it was true here. When IBM switches over to .09 micron we should se a greater increase.

The thing to wonder is how much do these puppies draw? The 1.2 GHZ chip was at 19 watts. Wonder if IBM drove down some of the others or not. It'd certainly be nice to have a 1.8 or even 2 GHZ chip in a Powerbook. That would throw a definite advantage in speed to the Mac.

Actually, 2.5 GHZ may favor the Mac with the architecture of the 970. The only thing superior is the multi-threading found in Intel's high end P4s. Interesting.