Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2003 15:32 UTC
I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.
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from what i've read on the net the version of GCC used by apple in their benchmarks doesn't support SSE this no doubt would have some affect on the benchmarks, also the fact that GCC is nowhere near as efficent a compiler as ICC.
When will the first of these G5's be in consumer's hands? it be interesting for someone then to run a series of benchmarking tests.
As for the future of the P4 well the 3.2GhZ model is the last of the Northwood CPU's. Prescot will be out on the market later on in the year and there is talk that Intel will remarket it as P5. From what i've read it can scale up to 5Ghz. Has 1meg L2 cache onboard as well as a new instruction set extension (PNI). As well as that supposely Intel have being doing some serious work on it to improve the Hyperthreading performance. Throw in the arrival of PCI-Express and SATA2 then next year to 18months is going to be an interesting time.