[News] Marvell announces Discovery III Northbridge | ANN.lu |
Posted on 30-Sep-2003 15:01 GMT by takemehomegrandma | 94 comments View flat View list |
Marvell today announced the Discovery III northbridge. It features a 200MHz PowerPC CPU interface, 200MHz DDR SDRAM Interface (400Mbps data rate), Dual CPU SMP Support (MPX and 60x modes), PCI-X, Gigabit ethernet and is software compatible with other Discovery northbridges.
Source: morphos-news.de
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Posted by Bill Toner on 30-Sep-2003 17:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (Bob): Realize that there's not much point in making the northbridge FSB much faster, as G3/G4 chips don't have FSB speeds faster. With 200MHz DDR memory bus, that much speed can't really be used by a single CPU either, again not much point in increasing it.
Once the PPC chips increase their FSB, only then will it make sense to increase speeds of other things like memory to what you ask for. The 970 is a good step in that direction, and hopefully we'll be able to use the things at some point. IMHO, compared to my 66MHz 68060, the G3/G4 lines are a good step in a good direction. Once northbridge chips for 970 and its successors are "widely" available, it will then be time for another good step.
If you want the latest high-end highest clocked hardware on the planet, the current Amiga market ain't for you. The 970 offers the possibility for the platform to catch up over the next couple years, but it'll take a while, with AmigaOne/Pegasos as the first steps in that direction. Hopefuly IBM will be better aat keeping up with Apple's demand and have enough chips to satisfy non-Apple customers as well. Motorola's difficulty in keeping up with Apple's needs and ignoring other interested parties has helped keep us only able to use older PPC chips, not the newest ones. If IBM learned from Motorola's sales issues, we should be able to seriously look at a big improvement in the next couple years... |
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