Motorola adds dual-core G4 to PowerPC roadmap

[Mac Reporter]

by Tony Smith
Published Wednesday 4th June 2003 11:16 GMT

Motorola is preparing a next-generation two-core G4-class PowerPC processor, the company will this week tell attendees of its annual Smart Networks Developer Conference, held in Disneyland Paris.

The chip, as yet unnamed - at least in public - will contain two PowerPC cores with AltiVec, Motorola's SIMD engine. It will also contain its own memory controller, capable of connecting to DDR and DDR 2 SDRAM, according to documents seen by The Register.

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[Edited on 8-20-2004 by Adel]