Inside the IBM PowerPC 970

[DethKnight]

yeah, likewise
as this is going to be my next cpu purchase, whence it becomes available

[DethKnight]

@argo

the mystic G5 we've all heard about.

lol; same comment on the bottom of this page ->

http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-10/2002c-1023-mcp7457-rm1.phtml

[DethKnight]

Now all we need is a chipset that supports it

maybe IBM has one, who knows....further speculation esp.
re:BladeCenter servers here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/27827.html


4 ddr in parallel...... seems like several reviewers comment that the ppc970 is designed to be very SMP or AMP friendly, almost as if intended to be non-solo.