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Greetings, Power Architecture readers,
Lots of good news in this newsletter: 11 more companies just joined Power.org, and one of newest entries in the PowerPC® realm is Freescale's MPC7448, a
low-power embedded chip built with the 90nm SOI (silicon-on-insulator)
CMOS process that Microprocessor Report's senior analyst Tom
Halfhill says follows a tradition of "steadily increasing the performance [of
PowerPC-based embedded processors] while effectively managing power
consumption." The e600 PowerPC core should clock from 600MHz to 1.7GHz on less
than 10 Watts and should be available in October 2005. The same family of
processors, the MPC74xx, is in the G4 Apple Macintoshes.
Speaking of new processors, in the Power
Calendar this issue, meet the newest members of the Power Architecture family, the 970MP and the low-power 970FX. Plus, find some new ideas on the obstacles
involved in making chips smaller and a roundup of fresh news
on the Cell processor and some news of the future. And we make note of
upcoming workshops and conferences that should be of interest to you.
This issue's Power
Resources include some solutions from TimeSys to let you customize
Linux™ to make it as unique as the device it runs on. Plus, you'll find
more on the Slimline Open Firmware and updates on PIBS, as well as a
library of new or improved documents and a few IBM Residencies (so you can
put your name on a piece of history by helping to create those Redbooks™).
Also in this issue, the gang at the PowerPC Applications Engineering Team
offers a solution
to problems with non-integer core-to-bus frequency ratios in some
750GXs. And hear a few parting thoughts from Chartered's
Walter Ng.
Thanks,
Kane Scarlett
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