| Posted on 28-Sep-2004 19:29 GMT by Faster, cooler, G4 compatible | 26 comments
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Freescale (Motorola's chip division) has launched the 90nm G4, and is planning a dual core version for next year. The chip is faster -- over 1.5GHz -- and cooler than the old chip, but it is also pin compatible.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 29-Sep-2004 03:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (minator):
"I'd guess anyone actually putting this chip on a board will connect up via PCI Express which will be in wider use by then and thus be more avilable."
I agree. This CPU will be released not before 2nd half of the next year, and first products with it may come from next autumn to new-years eve 2005-2006 (if no delays occur, which is not uncommon). By then PCI Express will probably be much bigger than now. Desktop computers use to live around 2-5 years before they are considered outdated (depending on area of use and what technology it uses), including future technologies will make the product live longer, hence worth investing in, while solely relying on by then old technology will be a great way of reducing the lifespan of the motherboard to 0-1 years or so (not worth investing in for customer).
PCI Express is a future technology that probably will take off for real during next year. ATI is one of the many bigger players that embraces this new technology (http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4784.html, "The new video card allows data to be sent and received concurrently at twice the speed of existing AGP 8X solutions"), and Adaptec is another (http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/markeditorial.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=PCI_Express_index, "PCI Express, a new serial host interconnect architecture, is designed to address a wide range of current and future system interconnect requirements by delivering the flexibility, scalability, and performance bandwidth needed to support Serial Attached SCSI and upcoming technologies such as 10 Gbit Ethernet ... Adaptec is focused on providing I/O controllers that deliver the highest levels of price-performance to meet the growing bandwidth requirements of next-generating computing systems. Toward that end, Adaptec offers Serial Attached SCSI controllers with PCI Express").
It will be GOOOD THING to have PCI Express in a new motherboard product (I would even say it would be a REQUIREMENT), and DROP the jurassic standards like regular PCI and AGP once and for all! |
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