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Subject: Re: Dual Core PPC970 in 2005 (OT)

Author: Frank E. Oldham

Date: 16:38:41 07/27/04

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On July 27, 2004 at 07:25:07, Dan Andersson wrote:

> Both AMD and Intel have multi core chips on the way. And IBM have been working
>away on the Cell for quite some time now. And I seem to remember that ARM
>aquired Alchemy a while ago. And Alchemy had a working DP MIPS CPU.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

the Power4 is a dual-core chip (available for 2 yrs);
the Power5 is the newest iteration, dual-core plus dual-thread-per-core (SMT)
and you can now buy Linux or AIX versions

Frank



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