IBM's Power5 Processor at Microprocessor Forum

Great! guess this means in 1 1/2 years when I am ready to by a new Tower that they will be running in excess of 4Ghz :D

Dual 5 Ghz G6 processors, 8 Gb ram, 2 500GB SATA Hard drives, 8X DVD-R,-RW, +R, +RW.... etc...


:D

The news is good, but for people that are interested in what Apple is up to next with the hardware, not very useful information. Sure it does point out what *might* come our way-(even for Pro users), but the length of time before we see or even hear about the possibility of Apple being serious about using these new chips-(derivatives of them) in new PowerMacs is at least 1.5-2 years down the road.

It is promising though, A nice new G6/G7 sitting on my desk would look very niiiiccce.:D


SHOOT! I thought I would get the first post...hehehehehehehe:D

G6? Sounds good to me :)

It's still so refreshing to see apple's chip provider actually caring and developing new, more advanced chips.

Cool thats neat...

Hope for a even more killer G6 in the works!

:D

:yay:

Just think! By the time IBM's rolling out the Power5 based PowerPC chip two years from now, Motorola might have a G4 that supports DDR-SDRAM! :D

Originally posted by Macrumors
Rumors of a Power5 derivative chip akin to the 970 have been circulating, and IBM's speaker even suggested that "such a step would be logical again as IBM engineers refine the Power5 design".

Cool, a G6 laptop.

Meanwhile, MacCentral reports that the Power6 processor is said to be "well underway".

No, no! Make that a G7 laptop!
:D

This feels so good after being stuck with Moto for four years :)

Purely speculation, but unless I'm mistaken there's nothing inherently stopping Apple from using Power5 chips directly. There's not the slightest chance that one would make it into a desktop machine, but if Apple starts going for bigger-iron servers or maybe wicked high-end workstations, one of these might be an option. They do use the same basic PPC instruction set, don't they?

Since it looks like these bad boys come in 10cm X 10cm packages of four dual-core chips each with the memory controller built in, all Apple would theoretically have to do is slap a big chunk of RAM slots, a bunch of IO, and a huge heat sink on one of these bad boys and you'd have an 8 processor Xserve ready to roll.

I wouldn't hold my breath, but it could happen.

I wonder if the price/performance ratio on the Power5 makes it undesirable for clustering compared to a cheaper, more bleeding-edge (in terms of sacrificing reliability for performance) 970.

Cool stuff going on, which is more than I can say I've heard word of out of Motorola for the past three years.

Originally posted by Makosuke
Purely speculation, but unless I'm mistaken there's nothing inherently stopping Apple from using Power5 chips directly. There's not the slightest chance that one would make it into a desktop machine, but if Apple starts going for bigger-iron servers or maybe wicked high-end workstations, one of these might be an option. They do use the same basic PPC instruction set, don't they?

Since it looks like these bad boys come in 10cm X 10cm packages of four dual-core chips each with the memory controller built in, all Apple would theoretically have to do is slap a big chunk of RAM slots, a bunch of IO, and a huge heat sink on one of these bad boys and you'd have an 8 processor Xserve ready to roll.

I wouldn't hold my breath, but it could happen.

I wonder if the price/performance ratio on the Power5 makes it undesirable for clustering compared to a cheaper, more bleeding-edge (in terms of sacrificing reliability for performance) 970.

Cool stuff going on, which is more than I can say I've heard word of out of Motorola for the past three years.

nm, just noticed that was talking about high end servers. I don't think IBM's gonna let Apple do that.