I am not trying to irritate people. I was just observing that I find
it curious
that no where on *Apple's* web site do they refer to the real model of
the
chip. Even in the tech specs docs. Since IBM made it I assume they have
the right to give it it's "true name"
As I said, IBM itself refers to it as "PowerPC 970". IBM will ship its
own computers with the chip under the "PowerPC 970" moniker. The chip
was also created as the result of a partnership between IBM and Apple,
a partnership which I am sure affords Apple the rights to refer to the
chip as they please. Remember, the Motorola PowerPC 74xx was always
referred to by Apple as the "PowerPC G4 processor", and the
Motorola/IBM PowerPC 75x as the "PowerPC G3 processor".
I'm not sure where the "Moto may sue" thing comes from, as they have
nothing to do with the PowerPC 970 at all...
I am sure I saw something last year that Moto was working on something
called a "G5". I guess Apple own all the trademarks on "G?".
What does the G stand for anyway?
"G" stands for generation. In fact, Motorola already describes its own
"G5" PowerPC processors (5th generation PowerPC processors) on its
website:
Dave Schroeder
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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