Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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I believe that one of the reasons for the high cost of the power4 is that it has LOTS of high speed cache on it. Now I'm not a hardware guy but from what I have been reading about cpu's, if you feed it fast enough, you don't need so much cache. It might be possible that they are going to strip the power4 of all the cache and add RapidIO (or HT) and altivec.
- Mark