Soup of CPU News on the Web

“A Brief Look at the PowerPC 970” explains what the new IBM CPU is all about and how does it stand against the x86 competition today, and in a year from now (release time). Another article is titled “When is PowerPC Not PowerPC?“. On ExtremeTech you will find “AMD Tips Opteron Benchmarks“. Two articles at EETimes, “Intel describes billion-transistor four-core Itanium processor” and “Intel to debut 90-nm ‘Banias’ processor in 2H ’03“. Of embedded interest: “MemoryLogix to disclose ‘586 core’ for SoC applications“, a CPU to compete with ARM.