[ Thanks to Robert
McMillan for this link. ]
“Industry sources say that IBM plans to announce a new 64-bit
processor on Monday–known as the PowerPC 970. It will run a new
line of Macintosh products that could be available by the end of
next year…“Big Blue is being equally cautious about revealing its own 970
system plans, but analysts say the chip could provide the basis for
an IBM Linux system.“‘There’s a Linux port to PowerPC, and a fair amount of support
for that,’ said Kevin Krewell, senior editor at the Microprocessor
Report newsletter. ‘This would work well as a very high-performance
Linux box…’