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IBM Takes the Lead

The Microprocessor Report Analysts’ Choice Award for Best Desktop Processor of 2003 goes to IBM’s PowerPC 970FX, which shipped to Apple late in the year for use in the Xserve G5 and possibly other still-unannounced systems.

The 970FX should yield well at 2.5GHz, up from the 2GHz speed of the 970 used in Apple’s Power Mac G5. This 25% increase in clock rate will not soon be matched by Intel or AMD.

Original Microprocessor Report article here. (Registration required)

And here is a summary of all the awards.

[BZ]

Yeah... good catch (boy you are all over Ars and MacNN).

Every single day I have to resist:

1) Buying a Dual 2.0 G5
2) Writing a nasty email to The Steve telling him to release the updates
3) Believing anything I read on any rumor sites

Takes a lot of time!

BZ

[djohnson]

Nice find! Always cool to see something connected to Macs get an award.