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- APPLE SHOWS POWERMAC RUNNING AT 120MHz
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- (May 27th 1994) IBM's new 0.5 micron production line, designed to
- build 100MHz PowerPC 601s, is producing at least some chips capable
- of running at 120MHz. The proof came in a demonstration that Apple
- gave at its World Wide Developers Conference, and again at Comdex.
- Apple proudly displayed a hacked-together Power Macintosh modified to
- take the processor, running at the faster speed.
-
- Apple was taking extreme pains to say the box was "an illustration of
- the technological capabilities of the PowerPC architecture rather
- than a product announcement". Indeed the machine was obviously a
- quick fix with a number of components in it which were unhappy
- running at 120MHz. One sceptical observer who passed the Apple stand
- a couple of times reports seeing it with its lid off while Apple
- employees waved fans at its over-heated interior. The problem
- apparently, was not the processor itself, which has an admirably low
- power consumption, but rather the support chips, which were
- struggling to keep up.
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