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 | Posted by: on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 18:21
Submitted by gunne |
| | | | New Chips
It's been known for some time that Freescale were working on new PowerPC processors. Now they've been announced and they are substantially different from the previous G4 designs, they still follow the same philosophy of low power consumption but this time doing so at the same time as increasing overall system performance.
The latest 7447A G4 runs at up to 1.5GHz and can be found in Apple's 15" and 17" PowerBooks. Freescale (previously Motorola Semiconductor) have concentrated on the embedded market where low power consumption rules rather than absolute maximum performance, thus the clock speed has not soared like the Pentium 4 but then neither has pipeline length or the power consumption. The highest performing Pentium 4s already use in excess of 100 Watts, the next generation G4 7448 is expected to require less than 10 Watts at 1.4 GHz. Of course when performance is needed there's always the Altivec unit which was never been lacking, to encourage it's use an increasing number of routines are being made available by Freescale for use by their customers.
Read the complete article at OSNews.
Note; Genesi also informed they will support the G4 7448 with the Pegasos. A board was also shown at SNDF in Frankfurt.
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