Guy Madison
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Years ago I figured out that there was a hardware programmable Altivec unit on the G4 series, it was integer only but it was definitely shipped on the G4 silver as it showed up IOReg. One of the hardware engineers at Apple verified my findings but didn't have any information on it other than it was like a DMA unit that allowed data to be processed directly in hardware vs the PPC processor.
Does anyone know about this ASIC or has it been lost to time?
Does anyone know about this ASIC or has it been lost to time?