Inside the IBM PowerPC 970

[olegil]

Good article as always. There's both positive and negative sides to any decision, but I sincerely believe the 970 is gonna be a blast. Now all we need is a chipset that supports it. I don't believe in Thendic's idea of using this on an ArticiaSa, to say the least. If I ever heard a bad idea, that's the one. Oh, and is there even any memory technology available at 900MHz? Or are we talking like 4 DDR modules in parallell to give the required bandwitdh? ;-)

*twiddling thumbs*

[olegil]

"will work" is one thing. "will be worth laying out serious dough for" is another thing. Any 64bit high-frequency fsb CPU will be _severly_ hampered by running the memory and the AGP through an Articia chipset. And please don't tell me you could have memory on the CPU board. That would be outside the PCI and AGP DMA space, just like accelerator memory is non-reachable from Z2 and onboard chips on the original Amiga design. Chip ram problem all over again, huh?

Nah, gimme a new chipset on a new motherboard.