IBM at 90nm by Q4?
- IBM is currently sampling 90 nanometer chips using SOI, and plans to ship those chips in the fourth quarter, said Scott Sykes, an IBM spokesman.
Current PowerPC 970s utilize a 130nm process. While no specific chips were referenced in the Infoworld article, a 90nm chip would bring higher clockspeeds and lower heat production as compared to the corresponding 130nm chip.
Meanwhile, an unverified report that appeared on Page 2 claims to have more details, but also claims a later ship date for the 90nm chips.
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Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
hopefully this will push PBs into G5-land way before the end of '04. Steve announced Desktop G5s at WWDC 03, maybe he'll announce the PowerBook G5 at WWDC 04?? Here's hoping
Yep, here's hoping we see them not only in PowerBooks but also in iMacs too by next summer.
Originally posted by Macrumors
An Infoworld story from last week notes that IBM is actively working on 90nm chips and actually plans on shipping these chips before long:
Looks like the year of the Powerbook is about to get a "leetle" bit longer :)
2003-2004.
Can you even imagine the astonishment (shock and awe) when a G5 Powerbook comes out and unix and wintel geeks start jumping ship to OSX? I cannot.
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Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
hopefully this will push PBs into G5-land way before the end of '04. Steve announced Desktop G5s at WWDC 03, maybe he'll announce the PowerBook G5 at WWDC 04?? Here's hoping
Wouldn't get your hope up just yet. We still don't know what kind of heat the 90 nano process 970s give off.
This is according to the page 2 rumor:
An anonymous/unverified report claims that Apple has already been seeded sample 90nm PowerPC 970s this month. Reportedly, they run from 1.8GHz to 3.2GHz and heat production is significant improved, with a 2GHz at only 34W, down from 57W. The 3.2GHz chip reportedly at 71W.
34W seems way high. At the same voltage, a 1.6 ghz 970 (90 nano) would give off 27W, too high for a laptop I presume. Of course, this is only a page 2 rumor so we don't want to read too much into it. And there are many other factors that come into play.It struck me that a 2ghz 970 (130 nano) gives off 57W. Seems awfully high. Isn't that in the Pentium 4 range?
And the article is about 90nm in general. It said that intel does not use silicon on insulator (SOI). That is probably causing the heat. And AMD is not making a 90nm before Q2 2004. Surely those AMD fans are waiting fore those high clocked athlon FX's
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