"While Intel and AMD offer new PC processors with 533MHz and 333MHz bus connections to system memory, IBM this week will unveil a new PowerPC processor with a 900MHz bus capable of funneling the CPU up to 6.4GB of information per second. Widespread speculation has it that IBM's first customer will be Apple Computer, which will drop its current Motorola PowerPC G4 processors in favor of the faster new IBM chip. " |