@ HyperionMP
I was obviously referring to the 970 and the fact that Mai is working on the required chipset to support it as they have now revealed on the IBM PPC developer conference the other day.
How can you read "MAI is working" into:
* IBM is actively talking "to memory controller vendors with representatives in this room (Mai Logic and Marvell were exhibiting) and others, who will vend controllers supporting at least dual CPUs."? (
Link)
Ah well, perhaps you have other information than the rest of us. But they would surely be fools if they don't look into this! But don't hold your breath, Mr Hermans!
I wrote this elsewhere:
So *if* there will come something out of this, it means real life end-user products ... when?
[Developing a new chipset, bugtesting that, make necessary modification and go back to the manufacturing plant, developing a new motherboard around this architecture, bugtesting that, making necessary modifications and start production ...]
In 2+ years from now?
Pegasos III ? :-o :-)
Well, I'm not holding my breath! The Peg I is here today, the Peg II in a near future ...The IBM NB (only single processor support?) will possibly come earlier; IBM *should* have some lead, one thinks ... ;-)
Anyway, there will surely be some choice of chipsets for motherboard designers to choose from ... in some time. By then, the CPU will have matured and advanced even further, prices may have dropped, and things might be generally better. But that is then, and this is now. Perhaps we shouldn't be hyping some future technology, instead we should focus on what we have today and make some OS'es and software ready for this! ;-)
