Motorola zal volgende maand de nieuwe PowerPC G4 presenteren, met vooralsnog een snelheid van 450Mhz. De G3 was dik, de G4 is vetter (maar dat mag ook wel aangezien alles op een Mac 2x trager gaat):
Motorola looks set to debut its next-generation PowerPC processor, codenamed G4, processor at next month's 1999 IEEE International Solid-state Circuits Conference, to be held in San Francisco.At the same time, IBM will unveil a 580MHz PowerPC 750 (aka G3) based on Silicon-on-insulator technology, according to US newswires.
The G4 will be introduced at 450MHz and will be the first PowerPC to contain Motorola's AltiVec vector processing instruction set extensions, rivals to Intel's Katmai instructions. Reports suggest the copper-based chip (the first Motorola has offered; fellow PowerPC producer IBM began shipping copper CPUs last September) will contain 10.5 million transistors at 0.18-microns.
En de rest van het verhaaltje staat hier bij The Register.
