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Rumor: PowerPC 970, 64-Bit OS X 10.3 Beta Coming
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
March 10th 2003
Expect 1.8GHz versions first, 2.5GHz 970s coming on stream later rather than sooner.
Is IBM's much-vaunted PowerPC 970 coming to the Mac sooner rather than later? There're
at least two conflicting, but equally well-sourced points of view.
On the one hand, Ars Technica says that the 2.5GHz version - prototypes of which IBM
has running currently - will be a 'later rather than sooner' version, with the 1.8GHz
versions coming in the first wave.
On the other hand, MacBidouille reports that Peter Sandon, "father of the PowerPC
970", will make a presentation at the World-Wide Developers' Conference. The
MacBidouille story says that only certain select members of Apple's Developer
Connection will get the exclusive demo of the capabilities of the PowerPC 970 actually
running on a Mac prototype.
Better still, the story states that Apple has a beta version of Panther - OS X 10.3 -
in advanced stages of development, running in full 64-bit mode.
The article also notes that the current (prototyped) version of the 970 running at
2.5GHz needs a lot of juice: 64 watts. A DP version would need 128. Ars Technica adds
a little to this, stating that the 2.5GHz version will come later, rather than sooner,
as IBM will fabricate this version of the 970 using a 90-nanometer process.
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