[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 priest on 30-Jan-2002 06:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (Anonymous): >>It is ridiculous how cheap they are! (when compared to BPPC/CSPPC)
>>It is also ridiculous how powerfull they are! (when compared to BPPC/CSPPC)
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>It's not comparable. They are just PPC Chips + Cache on a small board with
>a connector. The PowerUP boards have 2 different architecture CPUs, an own
>RAM controller, gfxcard interface, SCSI - very complicated design.
From your previous comment I got the feeling that you were laughing at PPCs on ZIF socket. Are you now insisting that p5/DCE PPC cards (that are more expensive, slower and unavailable) are better?
There are not that many options for a Amiga OS user. 300-500Mhz PPC with L2 cache is HUGE improvement to what we have today.
Perhaps you were just trying to disparage AmigaOne?
AmigaOne is not ready, not for a while, let's comment when we have some benchmarks.
(FYI from eyetech: "A universal 'Slot 1' type CPU connector will be provided with adaptors being available for most popular pinouts / form factors of Mac-type G3/G4 CPUs.")
What I would like to know though, what kind of PPC board pegasos will have (I know they are custom cards)?
How will they compare to PowerMac cards, like the PPC's on ZIF socket?
(I have seldom seen p5(bplan) guys do cheap & powerfull HW (powerfull, yes. cheap, no.), but if they manage it this time I will be 2x happy.)
IMHO: If we want to keep up with PPC developments, the CPU slot specification should be open to third parties. |
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