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MfA · 23rd February 2004, 00:53

Well it wont have PPC chips either

IBM has excellent process technology BTW, Intels 90 nm process seems a bit of a lame dog in comparison if you look at what it did for their processor scaling ...

For desktop processors the ISA isnt all that relevant ... even if PPC cores were mass produced on the same scale as x86 their price/performance ratio wouldnt be much different. Even power consumption wise they dont have a huge advantage over say AMD at the same clock and process, about 20% lower, the low power consumption of the PPC970FX is mostly a testament to their excellent 90 nm process. To the average consumer there is no real benefit (AMD will get access to IBMs 90 nm process too).

Now if Cell turns out like planned and they put that in a desktop machine, that would be interesting ... for something like encoding it could have a far better price/performance ratio than either x86 or PPC.

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MfA Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,075	Well it wont have PPC chips either IBM has excellent process technology BTW, Intels 90 nm process seems a bit of a lame dog in comparison if you look at what it did for their processor scaling ... For desktop processors the ISA isnt all that relevant ... even if PPC cores were mass produced on the same scale as x86 their price/performance ratio wouldnt be much different. Even power consumption wise they dont have a huge advantage over say AMD at the same clock and process, about 20% lower, the low power consumption of the PPC970FX is mostly a testament to their excellent 90 nm process. To the average consumer there is no real benefit (AMD will get access to IBMs 90 nm process too). Now if Cell turns out like planned and they put that in a desktop machine, that would be interesting ... for something like encoding it could have a far better price/performance ratio than either x86 or PPC.