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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: Argo on February 13, 2004, 03:11:42 AM

Title: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon 64
Post by: Argo on February 13, 2004, 03:11:42 AM

"IBM's technically as yet unannounced PowerPC 970FX has won the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for Best Desktop Processor.

And according to MR editor-in-chief Peter Glaskowsky, Intel and AMD had better watch out."

Read More @ The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/35537.html)

Title: Re: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon
Post by: iamaboringperson on February 13, 2004, 07:15:47 AM

My favorite CPU wins again! :):) :)


But then it is one hell of a well designed processor

Title: Re: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon
Post by: Panthro on February 13, 2004, 09:28:35 AM

:-D Excellent now bing on the AmigaTwo :-D

Title: Re: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon
Post by: bloodline on February 13, 2004, 10:54:02 AM

If they can keep the costs down IBM will have a winner, at least until AMD move to their 90nm process.

Title: Re: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon
Post by: mikeymike on February 13, 2004, 12:06:17 PM

IMO if IBM continue at their current pace, in a couple of years they'll be pushing Intel and AMD.

Title: Re: IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon
Post by: minator on February 15, 2004, 04:19:50 AM

What all the Amiga sites have missed is IBMs announcement of the use of SSDOI (Strained Silicon Directly On Insulator) technology.  Which has just switched on 2 years ahead of schedule for the 970FX.

This could lead to a huge clock speed jump, my own opinion is IBM will have a 9xx CPU at 4GHz within 18 months.  If so Intel or AMD have no hope of catching it.