On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
> Out of curiosity I looked from some of the G5 technical notes on the
> apple site.
> Nowhere does it refer to it as 'ppc 970'. Presumably it must be 970 =
> G5 as it's
> 64 bit and it's now a power4
>
> - is this marketing gone mad ? Kind of amusing how the old name has
> been completely
> erased from history.
>
> I wonder if Moto will sue...
It is an IBM PowerPC 970:
http://www.ibm.com/chips/splash/ppc970/
"IBM PowerPCB. 970
Tailored technology solution drives new Apple desktop
IBM's high-performance PowerPC 970 64-bit microprocessor is the driving
technology behind Apple's new G5 PowerMac desktop system announced on June
23, 2003 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at San Francisco's
Moscone Convention Center."
And what do you mean by "old name"? If you mean "970", no, it hasn't; IBM
will always refer to it as the PowerPC 970, and Apple will likely always
refer to it in official materials as the "PowerPC G5".
IBM even says "The new PowerPC 970 - referred to by Apple as the G5 and
derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server 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...
Incidentally, Apple has always refered to the Motorola PowerPC 74xx
family as the "PowerPC G4" (never by it's "official" name), and the
Motorola/IBM PowerPC 75x family as the "PowerPC G3", just as they have
always refered to AltiVec as "Velocity Engine".
(For example, see: http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.apple.com/g4/ )
Regards,
Dave Schroeder
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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