[geeks] POWER5!!!!

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:43:07PM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > I don't think the Gamecube is a Walnut derivative (401?,450)... it's a
> > G3 as far as I remember.
>
> Whatever it is derived from is the part I can't clearly remeber.  I just
> thought the core numer began with something other than 6 or G.

I'm still looking for a part number, but it apparently (upon some AV
searching) is a custom IBM part called "Gekko".  It's a 400-series core
copper-interconnect chip running at 485MHz.

Peace...  Sridhar