There's a good news article at cnet's news.com about the now available 366MHz PowerPC chip that uses old 0.29micron technology and smaller transistors to squeeze 366MHz and consume only 3.5watts: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24618,00.html Despite the superior technology of the PowerPC chips, this will probably not make it as an embedded competitor for intel, or appear in anything other than the mac powerbooks and desktops, but for anyone who wants to run macos, mklinux, or freebsd, and tear apart powerbooks, this might be a great chip to get ahold of. Of course, if you want the best processor out there in terms of cpu muscle/watt you should grab a handful of StrongArm chips. As always for comparison: New Motorola PowerPC 366MHz 3.5watts Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz 7.3watts Intel Pentium MMX Mobile 166MHz 5.5watts Intel Pentium MMX Mobile 200MHz 2.7watts with 0.25 micron tech. Rise mP6 (comparable to PII 200MHz) 2.4watts StrongARM 110(160/200MHz) 0.3/0.9watts -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu / x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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