Could newer and faster G4's be on the way?


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Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola, annouced yesterday at the Smart Networks Developers Forum plans for a successor to the 74xx series of PowerPC processors. The 74xx series is currently in use by Apple in all but the G5 Power Mac lines, and is more commonly known as the G4.

The 32-bit e600 and 64-bit e700 are "enhanced PowerPC cores" based on the existing 74xx core designed "to issue four instructions per clock cycle into eleven independant execution units." Both will include a full 128-bit Altivec SIMD unit and are completely compatible with the PowerPC instruction set.

Both cores are planned to scale past 3GHz, presumably on 90-nanometer and smaller processes. No power consumption, performance projections or availability dates have been announced, though a roadmap has been posted to Motorola's website.

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*drool* 3GHz Powerbook G4 :woot:

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Read this while I was on a pbook at the Apple Store :D, I guess its awesome they'll be able to make faster G4's until they can find a good way to cool G5's and put them in notebooks (if its possible)

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