Marvell and IBM Announce Extension of Discovery™ System Controllers to PowerPC

[Kees]

"Marvell and IBM today announced a relationship to accelerate the adoption of IBM PowerPC 970 processors in next-generation networking, storage and server systems.   As part of the agreement, Marvell plans to extend its market-leading family of Discovery™ chipsets with new system controllers that include IBM's high-speed PowerPC 970 Elastic Interface technology."

Check it out here ...

[lempkee]

ok now i am confused....someone else talked about this a few months back....so whats wrong/right ?.

[KennyR]

Elastic interface? Does that mean the chip is held in with a rubber band? ;-)

[JoannaK]

I remember two related discussions..

There was some info about 3rd party bridge makers (Marvell and Mai ..
I think) being interested on making Bridge/controller chips for IBM
970 (mac slang G5)

And there is a bit newer comment by BBRV that Genesi intends to make
970 based system (Pegasos 3) early next year. (sounds likely that it'd
might use this chip then)

Beoynd those.. not much info of this

Ah well there are also Rumours (or 3rd party info) of Marvell
Discovery 3 chip. But (with what little info is publicly
available() it's essentially Discovery 2 with faster G3/G4 bus, so
it's not too interesting in this.

[magnetic]

Go Genesi!

 Its not a Revolution its a RE-EVOLUTION!

magnetic

Pegasos PPC 970 is going to turn some BIG Heads!

[Skyraker]

He's also announced the use of G9 chips in the Pegasus 12 when they become available.

[Warface]

He's also announced the use of G9 chips in the Pegasus 12 when they become available.

And you will be the northbridge :-)

[lempkee]

joannak:thanx! .just got abit confused thats all.