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	Encyclopedia: PowerPC 970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The PowerPC 970 is built using a 130nm manufacturing process, and the PowerPC 970FX and 970MP are built using a 90nm fabrication process.
		PowerPC was the cornerstone of AIM's PReP and Common Hardware Reference Platform initiatives in the 1990s, but the architecture found the most success in the personal computer market in Apple's Power Macintosh line from 1994-2005.
		PowerPC is largely based on IBM's earlier POWER architecture, and retains a high level of compatibility with it; the architectures have remained close enough that the same programs and operating systems will run on both if some care is taken in preparation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/PowerPC-970 (1026 words)

	PowerPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They rewrote the essential pieces of their Mac OS operating system for the PowerPC architecture, and further wrote a 680x0 emulator which could run the remaining parts of the unrewritten OS and 68K based applications.
		PowerPC processors have been used in many products, among which are the following: Apple Macintosh post-68k models (called PowerMacs), IBM RS/6000 UNIX workstations, Cisco routers, Amiga post-68k models (called the AmigaOne), Amiga "Classic" accelerator boards, Pegasos, the Nintendo GameCube video game console, and many embedded systems such as the TiVo personal video recorder.
		PowerPC processors bring the processor's local bus to the chip's surface, and connect to a bridge chip that translate this into other on-board device buses that attach to RAM, PCI, and other devices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PowerPC (2828 words)

	Ars Technica: A Brief Look at the PowerPC 970 - Page 1 - (10/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the PowerPC 970 first ships in the second half of 2003, it should clock in at around 1.8GHz on a 0.13 micron, 8-layer SOI process with copper interconnects.
		Both the 970 and the Power4, much like the Pentium and the Athlon, convert instructions in their "native" ISA into a special internal instruction format for execution.
		The reason for this should be obvious: with the 970 looming on the horizon and the G4 apparently stuck again around the 1GHz mark, nobody in their right mind would shell out for a new PowerMac any time after mid-2003.
	arstechnica.com /wankerdesk/3q02/powerpc.html (1296 words)

	Ars Technica: PowerPC 970 Redux: Dialogue and Addendum - Page 1 - (7/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I recently had the opportunity to chat with two of the IBM engineers behind the PowerPC 970: Pete Sandon, the 970's chief architect, and David Edelsohn, who works in the area of compilers and optimizat ion for the 970.
		If you read Appendix B of my second 970 article, then you'll recall that 970's fetch/decode pipeline appeared to be one stage longer than that of the Power4.
		Since none of the 970 diagrams released so far give the identity of this stage, those of us who were involved in the pre-WWDC speculation on the chip wondered what it was.
	www.arstechnica.com /cpu/03q2/ppc970-interview/ppc970-interview-1.html (781 words)

	creativepro.com - Details Emerge on IBM's PowerPC 970 Chip
		The big differences between the PowerPC 970 and IBM's PowerPC 750 family -- known to Mac users as G3s -- are that the PowerPC 970 includes a vector processing unit, a far deeper instruction pipeline, far higher clock speed, a high bandwidth memory bus and, most importantly, 64-bit processing.
		The PowerPC historically has been a 32-bit processor, and the vast majority of code created for it, including the Macintosh OS and applications, are 32-bit code.
		The PowerPC 970 is "Book E" compatible, meaning that it takes instructions from the set most recently agreed upon between Motorola and IBM for compatibility.
	www.creativepro.com /printerfriendly/story/17958.html (1088 words)

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		IBM's Tuesday, October 15th announcement of the PowerPC 970 was one of the most heavily anticipated processor announcements in recent memory.
		In this respect, then, the 970 could fill another gap in the computing landscape: the enormous desktop PPC performance gap left by Motorola as their G4 line continues to stagnate and the fate of their rumored G5 remains uncertain.
		Since the 970 is made for the desktop market, there's no need for such measures and therefore the new chip's clock speed will scale much higher than the Power4's.
	arstechnica.com /cpu/02q2/ppc970/ppc970-1.html (981 words)

	IBM planning 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor for 2003 - Computerworld
		IBM is preparing a 1.8-GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced today.
		The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second half of 2003, will dethrone the 1-GHz PowerPC 750FX as IBM's fastest PowerPC chip, IBM spokesman Rupert Deighton said.
		PowerPC processors are used in low-end IBM servers and in Apple Computer Inc. systems.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,75112,00.html (539 words)

	Ars Technica: Inside the IBM PowerPC 970, Part II - Page 1 - (5/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Introduction to Part II The present article is the second installment in a two-part series on IBM's upcoming PowerPC 970.
		The first article in the series is available here, and prior to that I wrote a brief preview of the 970 that's available at this link.
		Preliminary conclusions on the 970 vs. the P4
	arstechnica.com /cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html (356 words)

	Real World Technologies - Announcement of the IBM PowerPC 970 Processor
		The PowerPC 970 processor is a new processor designed for the desktop and small scale server market.
		Although the PowerPC 970 is a part that would cost considerably less to manufacture and sell, its performance actually exceeds the POWER4 processor in many areas.
		In the case of the PowerPC 970, the processor does not need to meet similar reliability requirements as the POWER4 processor, and as a consequence, circuit and process technology can be tweaked to obtain higher performance by trading away the near-absolute reliability required by the POWER4 processor.
	www.realworldtech.com /page.cfm?AID=RWT101502203725 (384 words)

	IBM Announces PowerPC 970 Blade Server
		The new JS20 Power blade is based on the 1.6 GHz variant of the PowerPC 970 processor that Apple is using in its latest G5 Macs.
		The PowerPC 970 chip is itself a derivative of the Power4 processor, except that it is single core implementation with all of the interconnection technology and other electronics necessary for a big SMP server removed.
		While the PowerPC 970 scales up to 2 GHz, IBM is coming out the door with slower chips in the JS20 blade server.
	www.itjungle.com /breaking/bn111103-story01.html (748 words)

	IBM unveils new 64-bit PowerPC® microprocessor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The new chip, called the IBM PowerPC 970, is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users.
		As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is designed for initial speeds of up to 1.8 gigahertz, manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit.
		Additional details on the PowerPC 970 are to be disclosed by IBM this week in a paper presented at Microprocessor Forum, a chip design conference organized by industry analyst firm In-Stat/MDR.
	www-3.ibm.com /chips/news/2002/1014_powerpc.html (412 words)

	IBM to unleash new PowerPC chip \| CNET News.com
		PowerPC chips are "losing the gigahertz race, but with all the performance (IBM) packed into this architecture, it's going to be competitive with the performance of the Pentium 4 in 2003."
		As previously reported, the PowerPC 970 borrows its design from the Power4, the chip used in IBM's showcase servers.
		Though IBM says the 1.8GHz PowerPC 970 will be the first in a family of chips, the company would not say when the chip will reach higher speeds, such as 2GHz, or if it will be available at slower speeds for applications like notebooks.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-961862.html (1168 words)

	Apple - G5 Processor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Impractical now, maybe, but the PowerPC G5 architecture allows for plenty of growth well into the future.
		And to get at that data, the PowerPC G5 features a speedy 1.35GHz frontside bus for each processor, offering a staggering 21.6-GBps throughput on dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5 systems.
		The PowerPC G5 gets its smarts from the execution core of IBM’s 64-bit POWER series processors, which drive IBM’s successful eBusiness servers, with highly parallel processing, two double-precision floating-point units and advanced branch prediction logic.
	www.apple.com /g5processor (480 words)

	The New Apple Core: IBM's PowerPC 970/G5
		To tame this beast for desktop duty, IBM removed one of the processor cores and the L3 controller and trimmed the Level 2 cache to 512K, accompanied by 96K of Level 1 cache (32K for data and 64K for instructions).
		IBM's design for the 970 blows away that bottleneck with a system bus -- technically, two 32-bit unidirectional buses or point-to-point interfaces -- running at an effective clock rate of half the CPU clock, such as 900MHz for the 1.8GHz processor or 1GHz for the 2GHz chip.
		In addition to the native 64-bit mode, with the 42-bit real and 64-bit effective addresses mentioned earlier, the processor supports a native 32-bit mode, which clears the top half of all effective addresses and uses the first 16 entries of the segment look-aside buffer as on-chip segment registers, reducing the number of off-chip table accesses.
	www.cpuplanet.com /features/article.php/2233261 (711 words)

	Ace's Hardware
		As you know, the PowerPC 970 is a single-core POWER4 derivative that is also IBM's first PowerPC chip to implement Altivec.
		The PowerPC 970 can dispatch five instructions (including one branch) per cycle, and can issue up to eight instructions to the execution units per cycle.
		These numbers have raised some concern regarding the performance of the 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970 upon its introduction towards the end of next year, as mentioned in our review of the dual 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4.
	www.aceshardware.com /read_news.jsp?id=60000475 (341 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - IBM's 970 CPU may have difficulty competing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Preliminary SPEC benchmarks indicate that at 1.8GHz the 970 is slower than a current 3GHz Pentium 4.
		However, given the Q3 2003 release date, the PowerPC 970 will surely be underwhelming--less of a "WOW" and more of a "Whew, just made it," and that's assuming all goes well.
		If the 64 bit 970 isn't as fast as the 32 bit P4 3 Ghz then Mac is in trouble because the quad processing AMD Sempron blows the P4 away.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2002Dec/bch20021217017801.htm (9794 words)

	TMO Reports - IBM Confirms AltiVec To Be In New PowerPC 970, Tightens Up Time Table For Production \|\| The Mac Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In their monthly PowerPC newsletter, IBM has confirmed what most Macintosh fans have been hoping for: The vector processing unit in the PowerPC 970 is indeed AltiVec.
		If IBM has been able to include the entire AltiVec unit in its new PowerPC 970, that means that Apple could include it a Mac product without having its developers recode their apps to take advantage of it.
		The PowerPC 970 is a microprocessor based on IBM's 64-bit Power4 architecture which is currently used in their high end servers.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2002/12/12.13.shtml (1107 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - IBM hypes PowerPC 970
		The PowerPC 970 is expected by many to end up in Macintosh computers in late 2003 when it arrives.
		The PowerPC 970 will arrive on a.13 micron process with SOI technology and will be manufactured at an IBM 300-mm facility that should keep production costs down.
		PowerPc 970 in an IBM linux desktop is where I think we are headed and I think along with Apples machines it may just dent Intels market share...and a dent of that market is worth a fortune.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2002Dec/bch20021226017922.htm (4834 words)

	Intersil PowerPC Solution ISL6563 for 970
		of the PowerPC 970 family of devices, as well as the more modest requirements of the Input/Output current of the latest and next generation PowerPC 970s.
		Customers using the IBM PowerPC in their designs require high performance power management (low voltage, high current, with excellent regulation) in order to maximize the performance of the system.
		Intersil has designed a solution that meets all the required IBM PowerPC 970 specifications, so that customers can easily implement a power management solution without having to do a unique power design.
	www.intersil.com /IBMPowerPC/RFIT/ISL6563for970 (343 words)

	LEM/My Turn \| Why Apple Can't Use IBM's PowerPC 970
		In fact, according to Details emerge on IBM's PowerPC 970 chip on MacCentral, the PPC 970 doesn't just handle 32-bit instructions, it can run as a 32-bit processor - and this is done natively in hardware, not through any kind of emulation.
		The PPC 970 wants to access the system bus at half CPU speed, which means a 600 MHz bus on the low end and 900 MHz on the high end.
		The PowerPC also supports Linux, the OS of choice among geeks and the OS that IBM is pinning its hopes on.
	www.lowendmac.com /myturn/03/0206.html (2333 words)

	Marvell: Press and Investor News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The combination of IBM's PowerPC 970 microprocessor, with speeds up to 2 GHz, and Marvell's Discovery 970 system controller is intended to provide embedded customers with a comprehensive and cost effective 64 bit sub-system solution.
		The IBM PowerPC 970 is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users.
		As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is designed to manipulate data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerate compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through specialized circuitry, known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit.
	www.marvell.com /press/pressNewsDisplay.do?releaseID=382 (728 words)

	IGM: PowerPC 970: A "G4-Killer"?
		The 970 could be a 'G4-killer' in two respects: first, the 970's speed and power would outclass the G4's on every level, creating a strong distinction between 'pro' and 'consumer' products.
		The 7xx series PowerPC's were G3's (themselves a melding of the best parts of the 604e with the best parts of the economical 603e; and faster than both), by both IBM and Motorola.
		The 970 could always be called G4 Plus or Super G4 or G4X or G4 sixtyfour or G4 On the other hand, they may want to break with the G+number theme altogether and use the introductin of the 970 as an opportunity to do so.
	www.insanely-great.com /news.php?id=1950 (7909 words)

	IBM Discloses 64-bit PowerPC Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The PowerPC 970 triples the length of the PowerPC pipeline, which translates into a higher clock speed: 1.4 to 1.8 GHz at the core's introduction, according to Peter Sandon, senior processor architect within the PowerPC organization at IBM Microelectronics.
		The PowerPC 970 will sample in the second quarter of 2003 and should be shipping in volume by the end of the year, probably meaning that Apple or some other customer would be able to release systems early in 2004.
		The PowerPC 970 is actually not the first 64-bit PowerPC architecture; Motorola announced the PowerPC 620 in 1998 as one of the first PowerPC implementations.
	www.extremetech.com /article2/0,3973,635220,00.asp (1041 words)

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