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[News] IBM's and Motorola's PowerPC RoadmapANN.lu
Posted on 02-May-2001 11:36 GMT by Christophe Decanini8 comments
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Posted by Anonymous on 01-May-2001 22:00 GMT
Glad to see there is a roadmap for that processor family. But the only real interesting things that was mentioned is not available now, but planned for the 'future'.
Well, seeing is believing. And it will be interesting to see to which level the other processor families have reached, by the time that the planned PPC models materialize sometime in the future (IF they becomes reality). And it will be interesting to see what price/performance ratio they will have. The only interesting PPC processor of today, the 'top of the line' G4 (the only one not obsolete for desktop purposes) has features and a maximum performance that in some areas can compete with the mainstream AMD/Intel processors, but to a much higher price. Price/performance is important. And 'price' have a close relation with 'volume'. The real volume is found only in x86 ...
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