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Re: Inside the IBM PowerPC 970
« on: October 29, 2002, 09:49:40 PM »
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One thing to bare in mind - the processor will probably cost about £400-£600 per unit at decent speeds.


Why should it be that expensive? The cost of a processor depends on the yield and the yield on the number of transistors. This processor does only have 52 millions of transistors which is 3 millions less than the P4. This means that the cost shouldnt be much higher than the P4. This is also the reason that the Power4 its so expensive. It has around 180 millions of transistors.

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