Year: 2003

Analyst expects speed-bumped G5s next month

IBM is ready to deliver a new version of its PowerPC processor — at speeds of 2.4 to 2.6GHz — to Apple by the end of this year, in time for a revision to the Power Mac G5 line, according to Peter Glaskowsky, analyst with Instat/MDR and editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report. “The main improvement to the PowerPC chip, known internally at IBM as the PowerPC 970fx, will be a reduction of the features on the chip itself, from sizes of 130 nanometers to 90 nanometers.

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