Maybe someone can look at the now released PA-SEMI processors:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37426Each chip is a single FP piped PowerPC that can issue three instructions per clock vs 5 for the PPC970 family. It should be similar on Int and and a little better on FP though, a lot of this is due to the large caches. They are full 64-bit PPC, support virtualisation, and would do Alitvec but that name is copyrighted by Freescale. Instead they do 'VMA'.
The three parts run at a max wattage of 25, 15 and 10W for the 2.0, 1.5 and 1.0GHz parts respectively, with typical wattage listed at 13, 8 and 6W. The individual cores are said to have a 7W max and 4W typical power consumption at 2.0GHz.
and a picture of the near-single-chip motherboard with DDR2, PCIe, etc. Mass production in Q4, so plenty of time to get a design together.
