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

[Scott]

Guess I'm getting too old and my memory is going. Numbers were wrong.
For anyone interested, here is the rumor article:

Quote:

We received word that two large shipments of Power PC 970 processors 
went to Foxconn in Taiwan, under a purchase order from Apple computer. 
Twenty thousand 1.4Ghz PPC 970's and forty thousand 1.6Ghz PPC 970's 
have already arrived in their hands. IBM's inventory contains fifty 
thousand 1.8 Ghz PPC 970's, of which forty thousand are destined for 
Foxconn tomorrow (Wednesday).

IBM has listed as pending 2Ghz parts as well, which means that it will 
be in inventory within a month if their fab in East Fishkill produces 
sufficient volumes of them, and from what we hear they should be in 
stock by mid-June. Apple has stated that they need a minimum of 40 
thousand in order to make a production run, and from what we understand 
this is for dual processors because normally their production runs are 
twenty thousand units. It is not IBM's policy to comment on other 
vendor's unreleased products. We have also been briefed that the PPC 970 
will come in 2.3 and 2.5Ghz configurations by the end of the year, and 
as well some preliminary specs on the upcoming 980 processor, which is a 
Power 5 derivative

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discoveryarts at mail.bellsouth.net wrote:

>on 6/6/03 12:06 PM, Shawn King at shawn at yourmaclife.com wrote:
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>>>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
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>>Is that "40M" 40 million?
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>>If so, you can discount it immediately. Apple doesn't need that many chips
>>as it doesn't sell that many computers.
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>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.
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