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To: Arrow Hd. who wrote (3048)	5/6/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

Arrow Hd. great post on IBM's mainframe PowerPC processing PowerPC technology capabilities to date have been overlooked . You have articulated the PowerPC's benefits of high speed at low power over multiple G5 and G4 processors . Also overlooked in the desktop, network and application specific areas is IBM's PowerPC partnership with Apple and Motorola (AIM). A timely example is Motorola announced improvements to a PowerPC (G 3) , which though only a 32 bit CPU , expands some instructions to 128 bit width for processing : " ... PowerPC chips with this technology will be able to process 16 times the number of data "chunks" for each clock cycle compared to previous designs. "Think of the chip as having a doorway in and out of the chip that's 32 bits wide, but the hallways are 128 bits wide," Turley offers. "Once data is moved out of [main memory] and into the chip, they can really swing lots of data around and do special number crunching, more so than other chips." news.com Might be unsettling if one thinks INTC's Merced 64 bit processor will reign supreme . Regards, Jim K.