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[News] The Register: PowerPC G5 hits 2.4GHzANN.lu
Posted on 06-Nov-2001 14:52 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä17 comments
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In their article, The Register quote an Apple source claiming that they've received from Motorola G5 processors running at a whopping 2.4GHz. Also, Apple have apparently already shipped a small batch of G5-equipped Macs to key developers.
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The Register: PowerPC G5 hits 2.4GHz : Comment 11 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Toner on 06-Nov-2001 15:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Budda):
It sounds like the G5 CPU connections will be somewhat different than the
G3/G4. I think thre was to be some memory controller built into the G5,
which would make somethign end up different somewhere in the connections.
But I also believe that the Mac accelerator companies will see a reason
to make the G5 fit on some sort of standard Mac ZIF module (and at least the
AmigaOne claims ZIF compatibility, perhaps Bpland and Merlancia will also
support these modules but I'm not certain what they'll do) So eventually
we should see a G5 ZIF module, then we may have to wait for compatibility
tests at the software level, but I'm confident it will eventually work.
Lots of Amiga accelerator companies made 040 and 060 chips and even the PPC
chips fit on the 68020 bus of the A1200 and the 68030 bus of the A3000/4000,
and even a couple for the 68000 bus of the A2000/500. So somewhat different
busses of G5/G4/G3 can surely be sorted out in similar way to make a G5 ZIF
module for current Mac machines, and the 3rd party Mac developers will love
that idea. It's virtually guaranteed to happen, just a matter of time
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Comment 12Kay Are Ulvestad06-Nov-2001 15:54 GMT
Comment 13Skal Loret06-Nov-2001 16:57 GMT
Comment 14Anonymous06-Nov-2001 17:17 GMT
Comment 15Bill Toner06-Nov-2001 20:05 GMT
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Comment 17José07-Nov-2001 15:44 GMT
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