During a session yesterday at the Microprocessor Forum 2002, IBM gave analysts and the press their first public peek at the internals of the newly announced PowerPC 970. I've been following the reporting all day and collecting information, so this article will serve as a brief wrap-up of the day's revelations that will hopefully answer some of the questions about the processor that I still see popping up in press articles and on newsgroups. I'll reserve a detailed analysis of the PPC 970's microarchitecture for a later, more in-depth technical article.
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