IBM PPC970 64bit CPU at CeBIT

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Keep in mind PowerPC has been 64bit since day 1. Intel and AMD are still out of their league. All I hear about Itanium and Hammer are delays, lackluster performance, delays, and more delays.

The Mac rumor sites have reported that 2.5Ghz PPC 970 was working using the 130nm process, but the chip consumed as much power as a 3Ghz P4. Of course the PPC 970 does more per cycle...yum! Question is can one supply power to these chips in dual or quad configuration  :-o

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The PowerPC has an instruction subset of POWER. POWER is basically PowerPC+Amazon.

PowerPC was 64bit from day 1. The PowerPC 640 may have been the first 64bit chip with only PowerPC instructions, but 64bit POWER processors existed beforehand which have the same instruction set.

Basically what I'm saying is you're wrong.

As for 32bit performance, x86 only caught up to the 68000 series when they released the 486DX4, and it didn't exactly blast anything out of any water (although it could boil water).

Lackluster performance refers to IA-64. Hammer really isn't 'here' yet, it's in one of its many delay cycles.

The release date of the PPC 970 will likely be late summer early fall. Plenty of time for more delays from the 64bit wannabes.