IBM PPC 970 to hit 2.5ghz

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Amiga! 32 to 64....uuugghhh!

I read somewhere that it would work with 32bit OS's and only require some tweaks (and I think recompile) to go 64 bit.  But someone else is sure to jump in with the answers.  At least they are now calling the SIMD unit "Altivec" so it will be the same as the G4.  And I'm not sure, but maybe the Artica P could be used for that, but likely it would have to be redesigned.

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I think it's been known that the PPC970 SIMD instructions are "Altivec" for a while, now. IBM might not have named them explicitly, but pretty much everyone knew. Well, everyone who was following this CPU, that is.

Well, I did know that it was stated before the SIMD unit would be Altivec compatable, but now it says Altivec SIMD on the specs.  It's just a releif that they are not "going their own direction" with the Altivec unit.