<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Nov 16, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">What "low-heat, energy efficient processors" that are suitable for </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Powerbooks and outperform G4 chips do they have?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">There's two in PowerPC; the Cell processor, and the dual core MPC8641D (G4 derivative). The MPC8641D has two cores, each having 1MB dedicated L2 and dedicated Altivec SIMD engine<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">, </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">dual 64-bit DDR2 EEC memory controllers clocked at 667 MHz, two PCI Express 1x-8x bus controllers and a 1x/4x Serial Rapid IO bus controller. The MPC8641D is capable of running a separate operating system on each core.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Both of them will outperform anything Intel has for "power per watt", and both would be easily adaptable to Mac OS X and the current line of Apple portables. Linux already runs on both of these high-performance PowerPC processors.</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>