Next Generation Apple CPU from IBM?

1999–2004September 23, 2002Macs Only!Apple hardware
Maybe, according to this eWeek article. It is a 64-bit RISC PowerPC CPU, called GigaProcessor Ultralite (GPUL), that doubles the performance of an equivalently-clocked G4. Details may be presented at the October Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, CA, where IBM will give a presentation "Breaking Through Compute Intensive Barriers -- IBM's New 64-bit PowerPC Microprocessor." [Paul Martin and Dana Baggett]

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