[geeks] icecube

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > > The one thing that leaps out is why in the world are they using and
> > > intel chip instead of a PPC?
> >
> > Why would they use a PowerPC, when they can use a POWER4?
>
> To keep costs down so that those of us at the bottom of the computer
> chain can afford them sooner.

Depending on what PowerPC they're going to be using, it might be cheaper
for them to go POWER2SC or straight POWER3, and get much more speed.  Most
PowerPC's aren't fabbed by IBM.

Peace...  Sridhar

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