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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 8:10:16
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| That's really good news!
Once Apple switched to Intel I feared for Power technology.
Bu luckly I was wrong!
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 10:17:34
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| Good news, will be interesting to see what comes out of the new relationship!
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 13:35:19
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| The Register are carrying the same story. Things are not looking so bad after all.
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 15:11:27
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| This is wonderful news, and proves that the PowerPC-technology is the future  |
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 15:15:18
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 20:37:15
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| >The two companies plan several key collaborative efforts, including creating a common instruction set architecture
Does this mean IBM processors may have Altivec in the future. |
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 23:10:32
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| The G5 (IBM 970/970fx) already has Altivec.
BTW: How can you join something as a founding member? 
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 23:34:29
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| @Rob
The rose just has a different name. |
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 7-Feb-2006 23:43:32
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| @PEB
Is this is a reference to .... to.... Saturday.... ?
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Re: IBM and Freescale, together again
Posted on 8-Feb-2006 12:34:28
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| @clebin
I was thinking about IBM's 750 series processors. |
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