Sahara Chip

[MacAztec]

I know this chip has been talked about here before, but I heard the Sahara chip supports some sort of quad processing.

In other words, inside of the main Sahara Chip, there are 4 micro-chips running, supporting the main chip.

Man, that thing could reach some wicked speeds. It would beat the pants off of a G4 too

 

[jadam]

yeah sure.... my ibook has a sahara, i bet you it BLOWS a g4 lol...

what you probally mean is that it has 4 parts, and each one can be turned off to conserve battery life, and that isnt in the sahara. the Power4s DO have multichips in it though.

 

[alex_ant]

Re: Sahara Chip

Originally posted by MacAztec
I know this chip has been talked about here before, but I heard the Sahara chip supports some sort of quad processing.

In other words, inside of the main Sahara Chip, there are 4 micro-chips running, supporting the main chip.

Man, that thing could reach some wicked speeds. It would beat the pants off of a G4 too

No... the G3 Sahara is just one chip. It is faster than equally-clocked G4s though, AltiVec aside. It's a shame the Sahara isn't available in more Mac models, because it kicks ass. Less than 4w of power consumption at 800MHz. Give me a couple of those in my PowerBook, please, so I can enjoy the 5 hours of battery life Apple promised me.

 

[rice_web]

I still wish that Apple would release a tower with a 1GHz Sahara, 200MHz system bus, and 400MHz DDR memory. Oh, that beast would cook.

 

[alex_ant]

What, only one CPU in that machine?

 

[Catfish_Man]

It's a G3...

Originally posted by alex_ant
What, only one CPU in that machine?

..., you can't do dual G3s properly.

 

[alex_ant]

Technicalities, technicalities.

 

[sparkleytone]

Originally posted by jadam
yeah sure.... my ibook has a sahara, i bet you it BLOWS a g4 lol...

maybe you should keep that one to yourself there jadam??

 

[bousozoku]

Re: Sahara Chip

Originally posted by MacAztec
I know this chip has been talked about here before, but I heard the Sahara chip supports some sort of quad processing.

In other words, inside of the main Sahara Chip, there are 4 micro-chips running, supporting the main chip.

Man, that thing could reach some wicked speeds. It would beat the pants off of a G4 too

That would be IBM's Power4 line of processors. It has 4 cores an can turn them on or off individually.

The G3 is an economical processor. It must run on its own. The Power4 costs more than a PowerMac.