New PowerPC CPU to be Announced by IBM

1999–2004October 15, 2001Dana BaggettApple hardware
next week at The Microprocessor Forum in San Jose according to this eWeek article. It is a successor to the G3 with planned clock speeds of 700 MHz to 1 GHz and run graphics as fast as the G4's Altivec engine through a different technology. Apple will reportedly use the new chip which will be available in 2002. [Dana Baggett]

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