Motorola completes 1.6GHz PowerPC G5

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Author: JT Smith

Always on the prowl for new hardware news, The Register reports: “Motorola taped out the PowerPC 8500 – aka the G5 – last week and is set to go
into volume production real soon now at speeds of up to 1.6GHz – a higher clock
speed than AMD’s latest-generation, ‘Palomino’ Athlon is expected to ship at.”

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