http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/18/dual-cores_detailed/

Dual dual core Pegasos (2x 2GHz), that would be something!

wow supper spiffy

at genesi: do u think this would bea good idea eventualy moving to a 2 or more ghz G4 dual core processor? it would be cheaper than going to the G5 and since morphos is so low resource oriented and linux runs fine on any 1.2 ghz G4 it seems this would b a darn good choice for a future move....what do u think?

This wont happen for the commercial market for a couple of years at least imo. Also AFAIK wont work with MOS..



magnetic

oh for sure i am not talking abotu the short run......but since freescale and genesi are "partners" ( i am assuming from the banners i keep seeing) i am sure freescale would provide the necasary information so that genesi could code everything to take full advantage of the chips.......either way it all seems exciting to me

[ Edited by poundsmack on 2004/8/19 16:16 ]

[ Edited by poundsmack on 2004/8/19 16:17 ]

Poundsmack

Please edit your post. It looks like a 10 yr old wrote it..

Also.. Genesi is working with Freescale NOT Motorola

magnetic

geez always the critic
sorry i havent slept in 36 hours.......long long and bad week....but thats not on topic topic is dual core G4...i though thye were suposed to be released end of 2004 or a little later? so it is not that far in the future...

I would love to see them on the Pegasos as long as they can be used on the existing hardware. Before that though I want to see MOS 1.5 released and see it take advantage of the hardware we have NOW not new hardware released before then.

ok there is something you might find interesting LINK on October 5th they will be showing "Freescale's First Dual-Core PowerPC Processor" looks like we might see one of these soon :)

1st of all we have to rememeber that when it comes to new CPUs from Moto/FS, on should take everything with camel-load of desert-salt. Specially when it comes to release dates.

It's also quite sure that these CPUs won't harmonize with the Peg2-design. Some sources say they will use Rapid-IO, other say they will have the RAM-controller onboard (or are both the same ???).

Sure there might still be the MPX, but only for backward-compability, makeing similar sense as a G4 in a Peg1

But I would really love to see such a beast, even if it's just to get laire kicked in the butt so he start working more on the Q-side of things

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Well there's thing's they talk about and other things they offficially announce, the e600 has officially been announced to have a dual core option.

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RapidIO is similar to HyperTransport.

As far as I can tell there will be a standard e600 pin compatible with the G4 and there'll be an SoC (System on Chip) version with RapidIO, Memory controller, GigE and a 60x / MPX bus.
Because the Pegasos uses a CPU on a card both could conceviably be made to fit, but you'd need to put RAM on the CPU card.

I don't know which one will be dual core (I assume the latter), should be a decent CPU though, a dual core e600 with it's own memory bus will give one of those nice new iMacs a run for it's money (on integer or Altivec stuff - not floating point).