There are so many different PowerPC projects on the drawing board over at IBM Corp and Motorola Inc that it is unclear even to PowerPC directors how many or which ones will ever see the light of day. Over the last week there have been more reports of chips ranging from the 610, through to 612, 613 and 615. We are told to discount them all as IBM and Motorola intend, in any case, to move from numbers to a naming scheme for PowerPC. Meanwhile the notion that there are 400MHz units in existence are unfounded, we’ve been told. And, to restate what we have said in the past, the PowerPC companies have not yet worked out whether they will resolve Intel Corp iAPX-86 emulation in hardware or in software.
