[G4] 970's anyone....?

[discoveryarts at mail.bellsouth.net]

on 6/6/03 12:06 PM, Shawn King at shawn at yourmaclife.com wrote:

>> I saw a thread on a rumor site 10-12 days ago
>> that the person who submitted it apparently works at IBM's Fishkill NY
>> plant had
>> just shipped 40M 1.6 GB 970 processors & 50M 1.8 GB 970 processors
> 
> Is that "40M" 40 million?
> 
> If so, you can discount it immediately. Apple doesn't need that many chips
> as it doesn't sell that many computers.


REPORT SAID Foxconn, another name for large Taiwan manufacturer Hon Hai, has
received a total of 60,000 Power PC 970 chips from Apple.
The report, on Looprumors, said that of those, 20,000 were 1.4GHz PPC 970s
while 40,000 are 1.6GHz.
Further revs of this chip, the site said, include 2GHz parts which are
likely to be around in mid-June.
And the same site said that the PPC 970 will fly at 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz by the
end of the year.