IBM's Processor Plans after the 970

presumably, the GPUL2 will be the processor that brings us to 3GHz - since it's due in Mid-2004.

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I just want to keep hearing about progress from IBM. I don't even want to think about the kind of stagnation that Motorola gave Apple and us.

I guess this is a 'yay'?

Not too sure - not really an expert.

Mind you, a friend of mine who works in servers went 'Whooo hoooooooooooo hooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO...yes...yeS...YES YES YES GIVE IT TO ME, BIG BOY!!!!'

And he's British, so, you know...that's pretty extreme...


Brother Mugga

So GPLU2 is the 970 at 90nm. Nothing really that we didn't expect. I am surprised that the 980 (although not talked about by IBM) could simply be the 970 at 90nm. I don't know much about the naming of processors, but why would a different name be given to an old product with a smaller die size?

I remember when news of updated processors came quarterly, this is sooo much better.

So, who gets first dibs on the 970s, if there isn't enough to go around.......Apple or IBM.

Still, it's not like there might be a shortage, er..........

So with IBM keeping us informed about the future..... this site should be renamed: MacNews.com :D

I feel so relieved since THE WWDC: Apple is here to stay. The future us bright.

I'm just glad Apple is teamed with a chip manufacturer that has a plan! It looks like the PowerPC has a lot of growth in its future. I don't think the folks at Moto every got over Jobs pulling the plug on the clones. They didn't seem to want to put any money in aggressively pushing chip development.

I just had a stupid thought...since Apple is great at the consumer level and just getting started at the low-end business server level (using Unix), and IBM is great at the mid to large sized servers and busines mainframes, (using Linux) ......does anyone think that a partnership/merger between Apple and IBM has any legs or has any business sense?

Apple continuing to make the consumer and portables, and adding user level workstations to their model list.

IBM doing what they do, but making their business servers integrate with OSX

Or do I have no idea what I am saying?

disclaimer: this is just a friday afternoon brainfart, so dont take it too heavily

Originally posted by jouster
So, who gets first dibs on the 970s, if there isn't enough to go around.......Apple or IBM.

Still, it's not like there might be a shortage, er..........

I'd say this is a pretty good indicator that the 'production problems' the other article posted today alludes to, are not as severe as some were making them out (hoping them) to be. Obviously there's gonna be enough 970's to go 'round...:cool: