IBM present the PowerPC 970MP

[System]

TOKYO -- Jul 7, 2005 -- At a Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo today, IBM announced new products, partners and initiatives around its Power Architecture(TM) technology, signaling continued momentum for the IBM POWER(TM) microprocessor family around the world. At the forum in Tokyo, IBM was joined by Power.org members, Business Partners and customers.

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[billchase]

What!?, no posts on how this new processor would be
great for an Amiga system? Anyone?

C Snyder

[dammy]

After Apple has announced they are dumping PPC, does anyone take PPC seriously as a desktop CPU?

Dammy

[Hammer]

IBM probably thinks that Linux(desktop distro kind)+PPC970 boxes as desktops or workstations...

[Linchpin]

Im gussing there has gotta be something there for them to even concider contiuing the PPC line ..

[dammy]

Im gussing there has gotta be something there for them to even concider contiuing the PPC line ..

My guess would be for their PPC workstations that go with their Power based servers.  That was the main reason behind the 970, to keep their line of workstations fast enough to keep their endusers happy.  Which they were not with the 60x PPC workstations.

Now IBM realizes one basic thing, the economics of producing 970 series just for their own workstations is not going to be subsidized by large Apple purchases.

Dammy

[Linchpin]

Hmm... maybe someone should concider hinting to them about the A1

After all, if it is a success.... then it would be worth their while supporting / funding the completion of the OS.

Maybe im in a dream world heh!

[Cymric]

In a dream world, yes. Most definately. When you can add two, and preferably three zeroes to the install base of AmigaOS 4, then I'm sure IBM would be interested. With four zeroes, they'd pay for continued development of AmigaOS, no questions asked.