[Ti] Mactel powerbooks coming...when?

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> What "low-heat, energy efficient processors" that are suitable for  
> Powerbooks and outperform G4 chips do they have?

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, 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.

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.
-- 
Chris

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