| Viper1 said:
No, but that's where the customization comes in. Just because it's backwards compatiable doesn't mean it must be the same CPU just clocked higher as TheShape is trying to have us believe. All the newer Power ISA's always include the ISA from the pervious specification. So all the modern Power Architecture CPU's have the older instruction sets from the Power and PowerPC line included.
How about we take in the fact that IBM doesn't even have a 45 nm PowerPC 750 production line to begin with. The only 45 nm PowerPC production line they have is PowerPC A2. |
OH yea there is no chance of them actually making a Broadway bassed CPU, you would basically have to change everything about it to get a multicore CPU with enough juice to power a modern console. It's just to damn old being bassed on a CPU from 2000.
interesting that Power is now a superset of PowerPC, I didn't know that I though PowerPC still had some features not in Power. Not that I have really read a whole lot on the subject recently.
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