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Motorola Reveals PowerPC Plans


Posted on Motorola’s site is the new roadmap for PowerPC performance and features. Motorola’s latest PowerPC processor currently in Apple’s Power Mac G4 will reach speeds of up to 1 GHz. In addition, Motorola said it plans to move the G4 from the current copper-fabrication process to a silicon-on-insulator technology. Future chip architecture will feature an extensible architecture, a new data pipeline and a new bus structure. Motorola’s document says that this processor will be available in 32 and 64 bit products, with “backwards compatibility.” I assume this means the chip will be capable of running 32 bit applications. If this is the case, Intel must be sweating it due to a lack of a serious market-ready OS for their 64 bit chip, Merced.

By Jason O'Grady

Founded the PowerPage in 1995.