By: Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org), August 17, 2014 12:29 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Kira (kirsc.delete@this.aeterna.ru) on August 17, 2014 11:33 am wrote:
> AltiVec was Power6
Altivec was in the PPC970 which was essentially a POWER4 core. The codename for PPC970 was GP-UL --- gigaprocessor ultralite, where the GP was the POWER4.
You can get into the legalities of what was added when to "real" POWER cores if you like, but that seems like a pointless argument about semantics. AltiVec was in something that was, to all intents and purposes (including being 64-bit), a POWER4 core.
> AltiVec was Power6
Altivec was in the PPC970 which was essentially a POWER4 core. The codename for PPC970 was GP-UL --- gigaprocessor ultralite, where the GP was the POWER4.
You can get into the legalities of what was added when to "real" POWER cores if you like, but that seems like a pointless argument about semantics. AltiVec was in something that was, to all intents and purposes (including being 64-bit), a POWER4 core.