IBM announces dual-core 2.5GHz G5 chip

By Dave Caolo

On Thursday at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM announced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 70 processor (Apple's G5), as well as new low-power version of the PowerPC 970FX. This chip is currently used in the Power Mac G5's and the iMacs. IBM says that the dual-core G5 chips will cruise at 1.4GHz to 2.5GHz, and may show up in future revisions of the Xserve and/or Power Mac G5.

The 64-bit dual-core chips boast two processing units per chip, each with their own execution core and 64K of Level 1 cache, and a 1MB Level 2 cache for each unit, making them more than twice as efficient as IBM's current 970FX PowerPC G5 processors, according to the company.

Intel? We don't need no stinkin' Intel!

[Via MacNN]
 

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