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G5 obsolete?
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According to this story on CNN it appears the microchip as we know it today is going to be rendered obsolete?
Discuss.
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Originally posted by the_glassman:
Discus.
fixinated.
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a solitary firefly flies at nite
into the darkness an endless flight
a million flashes of delight.
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"Nathan says the device will cost between US$30,000 and US$61,000, and its key point of difference between other supercomputers is its small size."
i can't even afford a sh!tty pc. 
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LOL!!1!11!
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This only affects the intel chips.
Our precious G5 is safe.
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A few guys make a fairly specific CPU, and you're already worrying "OMFG IS THE G5 COOKED?!?". Heh.
G5 is meant for consumers, this thing is meant for specialized industries.
To answer your question (in my opinion, and probably that of others), no. It isn't obsolete.
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<some witty quote that identifies my originality as a person except for the fact everyone else does the same thing>
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Trekkie alert. Isolinear computer chips in Star Trek work on the same principle of hardware based instruction sets....nifty....
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people ruin everything....
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Let's ditch the G5 for the POWER5...a mere $11,000 just for the chip alone.
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
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I like potato myslef. BBQ in fact. so not worried, my chips are safe.
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Don't worry your little head.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Comparing this chip to a general purpose CPU (like the G5, Power5, Pentium, Itanium, Athlon, ect) is comparing apples to oranges. They have entirely different design goals.
The article is thin on technical info - but it strikes me a being a very specialized chip (not a general purpose CPU like the G5 is). It sounds like it's designed to crunch numbers very quickly for one process at a time. Compare that to general purpose CPU's, which are designed to crunch numbers for many different and diverse processes at one time. This chip would probably suck at running a modern multi-tasking OS.
Originally posted by MindFad:
Nerds
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At only $30,000 to $60,000, I'll take five!
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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2 of the Top-10 supercomputers are based on the PPC 970 aka G5, the fastest one is another PowerPC design, I wouldn't say the G5 is obsolete.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Just like the G4 the G5 will also be replaced,
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