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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (70675)	9/1/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 1574005

Re. <Why does the G4 cost so much more than the Athlon and PIII at the same MHz if it is about the size of the K6-2? And is it that small compared to the Athlon and PIII because it is a RISC chip?> I THINK Motorola is charging $450 for the 500Mhz PPC with AltiVec that goes into the G4 Apple box. I don't know. How much less is the Pentium III 500MHz? Incredibly, IBM declined to support this PPC extension. So, given a single source supplier at the high end, Motorola can charge pretty much what it wants within reasonable limits. You know, it's like the Intel thing, before Athlon. Besides, those Apple fanatics will pay anything for something better. If IBM had built them, it probably would be in .18um technology at considerably higher MHz by now. In that case, Motorola wouldn't be selling any, IBM would charge even higher prices, and the Apple crowd would run even faster to buy them. Regarding size, I'm not sure myself. Certainly the RISC architecture is a BIG part of it. Also, the local interconnect level contributes at least a 12% density advantage Is that all of it.? I just don't know. Maybe PPC employs narrower devices than PIII or Athlon. THE WATSONYOUTH