[News] Motorola Ships First 1 GHz Processor Implementing the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Jan-2002 16:39 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 38 comments View flat View list |
Here is the official Motorola Press release.
More technical information was available in the What's New box, MPC7455 product on this page. The link is not working righ now. It was available a few minutes before. I guess the are doing changes
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Posted by Ole-Egil Hvitmyren on 29-Jan-2002 12:20 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Gabriele Svelto): POWER != PowerPC
Both are forks from the same tree, the PowerPC 601. PowerPC 603 and upwards have a lot of different characteristics from the POWER series. And IBM's PowerPC branch is WAY underdeveloped.
And the G4 has been capable of 1GHz a LONG time (like a year or so), but you had to overclock it. If it's possible to assume Motorolas usual ratings, these should be oc'able to at least 1.25GHz without frying them. Given some extra cooling, that is. Overclocking ppc is just a matter of shifting the multiplier jumpers, you know :)
I also noticed the specs and ordering info on the 8540 is out, this is the first embedded chip based on the "Book E", aka "G5", core. Was drooling all yesterday reading the specs on www.mot-sps.com ;) |
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