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Analysis: x86 Vs PPC : Comment 35 of 38ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 11-Jul-2003 18:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 31 (Rob):
Rob asked,
> What happened to the "real" G5?

You'd have to talk to Motorola. Presumably they did have a chip in the works, possibly to the point of sealed-Mac evaluation hardware (rumors), but squabbles over the bus (RapidIO vs.. whatever the competing tech is?) helped quash it. On the other hand, perhaps it never got off the drawing board, and any pre-970 sealed-boxes were for the higher-clock G4s Moto did put into production. (Arguably, this could've been Apple being their usual selves- an Apple-derived interconnect means *Apple* makes license bling on all implementations sold; RapidIO would mean Motorola could've made some further change off IBM's designs.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6037 - funny how that name keeps cropping up - reviews the situation, as it stood a while back.)

In the end, you can fret about these things, but what really matters, as always, are: -Existence, -Platform support, -Price/Performance, and -Performance/Watt. We've wound up with a pretty darn fast PowerPC via the 970, and if IBM can ramp it Athlon-style (a relatively simple, modifiable design), then "we"'re pretty well set. It's not like losing Transmeta -- which, arguably, we might've seen some Neat Hacks -- it's more like losing the Cyrix M-II when you've already got Durons on the market. Sure, those guys could do some crazy engineering (and as corrolary, the M-II turns out to have been an interesting little chip, in retrospect), but how much can we care when it wouldn't scale to competetive levels? (Those 'overclocked' Motorola chips certainly don't run too cool in existing Macs.)
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