wbmw, Dual 1.8Ghz 64-bit cores? Sounds cool and it may stabilize Apple's sales. I guess there go the dreams of many AMD fans to have Apple go with Hammer... On the other hand this shows that more companies are trying to find ways to improve cpu throughput without going for Max Mhz/Ghz. C
I could have sworn I heard some rumors that intel was looking at going with some sort of dual core chip. Don't remember hearing anything about them actually getting it working. Maybe Moto will have more success. We'll see.
These PowerPC chips will be based on a single core version of Power4, not the full fledged dual core version. The reason is die size. Power4 is far too expensive to put in a desktop PC.