Return of the PowerPC Mac?

ianlevesque · on July 9, 2015

Ha, not likely. But because IBM and GF will manufacture for 3rd parties there's at least hope for AMD now if they get a better design.

dzhiurgis · on July 9, 2015

Also research devices like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNorth

tracker1 · on July 9, 2015

I don't think that AMDs designs are particularly bad... an FX-8350 can go toe to toe with a higher end i5. Of course that's without the power savings of a newer process.

I do hope that AMD comes up with something with a single-core performance competitive to an i7 with a power envelope in the ballpark.

rasz_pl · on July 9, 2015

>single-core performance competitive to an i7

best AMD chip cant even compete with cheapest Pentium(celeron) when it comes to IPC

tracker1 · on July 10, 2015

But it will support 32GB of ECC ram and more than two simultaneous processes. ;-)