So as we move to intel... the PPC finally looks to deliver on its shortcomings... a little to late! A fresh new company will begin offering a new family of low-power, multicore, PowerPC architecture processors in 2006.
read more hereP.A. Semi's first processor, a chip dubbed PA6T-1682M, will include two 2GHz processor cores, a pair of DDR2 memory controllers, 2MB of Level 2 cache, and an I/O subsystem consisting of eight PCI Express controllers, two 10-gigabit Ethernet controllers, and four gigabit Ethernet controllers, the company said.