IBM's Manufacturing Techniques (SSDOI and HOT)

[mvc]

Originally posted by Analog Kid
Buzz. You fail the interview...

It wouldn't be a G5 until after it's used... ++G4 would be a G5 before it's used.

Sorry, I figure this thread is already far enough off topic...

switch(processor)
{
case Motorola:
exit (as soon as possible)
case IBM:
continue (as long as they are faster)
default :
not intel (pleease no)
}

 

[Mr. MacPhisto]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Nah. By the time that an Altivec-G3 comes out, the G5 can go across the line.

And IBM just refers to it in generic terms as an SIMD unit.

I agree here. I think the 750GX will be the last G3 used by Apple in the iBook. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple announces the G5 across the board at next year's WWDC. It'd be wonderful if they did it @ MWSF, but that isn't going to happen if IBM is skipping 90nm.

 

[Docrjm]

G8

After the G6 we will have to look at fairly diif names. There already has been G7 , which is now the G8. Whenever they meet there is frequent disruption.
Come to think of it we could still use G8, so long as we are disrupting intel!

 

[Steamboatwillie]

'Strained Silicon Directly on Insulatar'

'Strained Silicon Directly on Insulatar'

The future seems to be here quicker than I expected. Is it me or do every day items all of a sudden feel like they cam right out of a Star Trek episode?

 

[mvc]

Re: 'Strained Silicon Directly on Insulatar'

Originally posted by Steamboatwillie
'Strained Silicon Directly on Insulatar'

The future seems to be here quicker than I expected. Is it me or do every day items all of a sudden feel like they cam right out of a Star Trek episode?

Wait till 2017, when your new quantum Mac ships with "64 qubit photonic teleportation bus" or maybe a "Heisenberg uncertainty quantum-state buffer"

But will it play WarcraftVII?

 

[CooCooCaChoo]

Originally posted by panphage
Well whattayaknow. There it is in black and white (depending on your browser defaults.) Who would have thought that IBM would not only make chips with a vector unit, but go ahead and refer to it as AltiVec. I seem to remember SIMD/No SIMD being a bit of a falling out between IBM and Mot, but times change I guess. Hell, I can remember when IBM was the cruel, evil, cold, faceless corporate enemy of all things Apple and Microsoft was Apple's largest and most prolific third-party developer. Times change indeed.

The issue had nothing to do with any political or anti-Apple, the cold hard fact is that IBM's main use for the PowerPC is the server which does not need SIMD extensions.

Apple approached IBM, IBM more than happy as they would have another customer meaning greater number of CPU's made meaning a larger economy of scale resulting in IBM being able to lower their pricing on their AIX/Power4 machines whilst still making a tidy profit.

As for any rumours out there about Itanium and Apple, for some reason I don't think Apple is going to start using CPU's that consume 100watts of energy and need a tornado to ventilate the computer properly.

 

[Flynnstone]

Originally posted by CooCooCaChoo
The issue had nothing to do with any political or anti-Apple, the cold hard fact is that IBM's main use for the PowerPC is the server which does not need SIMD extensions.

But IBM needs Altivec/SIMD/VMX (whatever), because it can be used to accelerate the TCP/IP stack. This is great for Altivec PowerPC.