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Posted on 16-Jul-2003 04:11 GMT by Martin 'Senex' Heine | 117 comments View flat View list |
Now available is the first CPU upgrade card for the Pegasos. Taking advantage of the flexible, expandable and open architecture, Genesi is delivering a G4 upgrade card to take your computing experiences to the next level!
Pegasos G4 CPU Card
Now available is a processor card sporting the Motorola 7447 running at 1Ghz or more. The 7447 is the latest in the 4th generation (G4) PowerPC lineup from Motorola, offering an improved performance base over the previous generation (G3) series of processors. In addition to a larger cache, the 7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and most of all, a SIMD unit called the Altivec. Altivec offers a dedicated on-chip vector engine, capable of delivering over a Gflops (billion floating point operations per second) while remaining affordable to the average user.
We have prepared a PDF document (4.7meg) describing many of the G4 processor's architectural benefits.
A small number of Pegasos 1 / April 2 systems are available with this G4 card for 499 Euros.
Please contact bbrv@genesi.lu if you are interested in this offer.
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Posted by Kronos on 16-Jul-2003 13:12 GMT | In reply to Comment 41 (Alfred Schwarz): >Isn't the Articia not used in embedded devices?
None that I heard of, and normally this community is quite good
at "trainspotting".
>I'm not sure about this, but I don't think MAI will for the
>small amount of AMigaOne/Pegasos1 only.
The Articia is MAI's 1st own chip, and very late on the market.
It also offers nothing that other proven chips don't (except for
minimal built-in AGP, whic is of no use in the embeeded market)
>Doesn't have the Articia that certified by IBM thing? ;-)
Which means "does work with our CPU", something different than
"prefered system controller".
> Just like the Teron developer boards from MAI did.
Nope they did not ! Or why do you think Alan was promoting boards
with "Articis-with-Fix" as Northbridge ;) The orginal Teron was
buggy as hell, the only think still disputed is wether the later
revisions (aka A1) share those bugs, and if the newer Articia is
really better than the old one.
>The Marvell does have some interesting features, but building a
>complete computer around it is just another thing (there's
>still the problem with missing AGP; there's again a difference
>between saying "that's just a couple of wires and a chip" and
>building it for real).
It IS just a couple of wires and a chip. Getting to resonable
speed may need more work, but a minimal AGP out of PCI-X is
rather trivial.
>I'm *really* wondering how they will make it to an end user
>system until September if they didn't have a prototype in July
>(and when bbrv says "Peg2 will be ready in September" I think
>that means end user version, not board layouts, prototypes or
>Betatester 3).
Me too, but most HW-development has to happen BEFORE you built
the 1st proto, or you may and up with a design for the wall
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