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IBM's POWER chief scientist says Apple to get a POWER5 derivative...
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...eventually. 
http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/...0823_3364691_2
POWER5 will also have a Macintosh-based derivative down the road. "We just haven't announced what this will look like," Sinharoy said, citing IBM's "strong relationship with Apple."
Something else to speculate about... after WWDC...
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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
...durr?
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
...eventually.
http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/...0823_3364691_2
POWER5 will also have a Macintosh-based derivative down the road. "We just haven't announced what this will look like," Sinharoy said, citing IBM's "strong relationship with Apple."
pretty vague quote....notice he says "haven't announced" which probably means he left out the "because apple does not want us to announce it yet..." part. and "down the road" could mean 2 weeks from now. just trying to read between the lines.... 
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Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
pretty vague quote....notice he says "haven't announced" which probably means he left out the "because apple does not want us to announce it yet..." part. and "down the road" could mean 2 weeks from now. just trying to read between the lines....
Well, IBM has been announcing the chips Apple uses many months before they appear in Macs. It just doesn't say Apple will use them.
eg. The G5 1.8 970 was announced in October 2002, while the G5 2.5 970FX was announced back in February.
IBM has not announced any specifics for any sort of POWER5-lite chip yet.
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IBM can announce all they want, it's the manufacturing and delivering they're falling down on.
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Sounds counting chickens before they've hatched in light of the G5 production issues.
If we get a Power5 derivative, I wonder if this time we'll get to see some of the chip multiprocessing or symmetric multithreading technology. I'd imagine we will, since Intel/AMD will be heading in that direction by then.
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Originally posted by itai195:
If we get a Power5 derivative, I wonder if this time we'll get to see some of the chip multiprocessing or symmetric multithreading technology. I'd imagine we will, since Intel/AMD will be heading in that direction by then.
Probably, since POWER5 includes SMT.
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Probably, since POWER5 includes SMT.
Doesn't Power4 include CMP? I guess it's easier to remove that from a derivative than SMT would be.
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