Unconfirmed report: Up to now, all PowerPC 970 processors manufactured have been prototypes, made for testing purposes. The 970 is now considered completely bug-free and ready for production. Yesterday, Peter Sandon - father of the 970 - gave the green light.
As of April 15, the 970 will be manufactured in quantity in IBM factories. Starting the end of June, the chips will be integrated in IBM Blade servers and in Apple systems. This will be Apple's new high end chip. You don't know how much effort I've had to expend to restrain myself from posting any 970 related info before this bit. It's almost a year now that I've been watching this story. Now it finally seems like it is near. And not a moment too soon. It's do or die time at 1 Infinite Loop (that's Apple headquarters street address. I swear.)
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- jim 4-09-2003 8:07 pm