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IBM plots next PowerPC chips

...line desktop systems. The G4 processor features the Motorola-developed AltiVec, or Velocity Engine, extensions for enhanced multimedia performance, a feature absent from Motorola's... Read more

25 May, 2000 by John Spooner and Matthew Rothenberg

IBM plots next PowerPC chips, Part II

New 750CX and 750CXe chips should give Mac portables a performance boost and will consume very little power Read more

25 May, 2000 by John Spooner and Matthew Rothenberg

How Apple is worming its way into corporate IT

...would provide reasonable battery life, not to mention safe heat dissipation. While Velocity Engine support would be useful (especially since the iBook is a cornerstone... Read more

6 August, 2002 by Stephan Somogyi

It could be time to switch to OS X

...some applications, such as AltiVec (or, as Apple prefers to call it, Velocity Engine) or anything that cries out for a bigger screen, faster hard... Read more

3 April, 2002 by Stephan Somogyi

Apple harbours high hopes for iMac

...G4 chip to the line for the first time and adding the Velocity Engine accelerator. That power boost may create a new problem, however, since... Read more

10 January, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Apple iBook

...memory, three times the memory dedicated to Photoshop, and the G4's Velocity Engine, which is fully utilised by Photoshop. The iBook is not designed... Read more

25 May, 2001 by Barry Lubov

Mercury rising: PowerBook to pack G4

...still based on the PowerPC G3, which lacks the other chip's Velocity Engine enhancements for graphics-intensive calculations and multimedia tasks. While the Power... Read more

26 July, 2000 by Jason D.O'Grady

Last big push for 'Classic Mac' OS

...It remains unclear whether these functions will require the G4 processor's Velocity Engine. Other new features include Help 4.0 engine, 128-bit encryption... Read more

19 July, 2000 by Daniel Drew Turner

Tony Smith: Macs marred by Megahertz

If you want to make it big, clock speed is what you need Read more

13 October, 1999 by Tony Smith
Wireless Data Acquisition System

Wireless Data Acquisition System

...can be displayed and recorded. Transmitted data includes information such as car velocity, engine speed, acceleration, engine coolant and air temperatures, oil pressure, and suspension... Read more

12 May, 2008
Power Fractal 1.4.1

Power Fractal 1.4.1

...Mandelbrot-like fractal and displays processor performance statistics. This app uses the Velocity Engine, a.k.a. AltiVec, and multiple processors (MP) for its computations... Read more

1 March, 2008
MPressionist HDTV 3.2

MPressionist HDTV 3.2

...has been extensively optimized for the G4 and G5 processors using the Velocity Engine. The tool gives the broadcast engineer complete access to the video... Read more

7 April, 2006
Effect Essentials 1.6.1

Effect Essentials 1.6.1

...up skin tones or chroma keys. All of the effects are AltiVec (Velocity Engine) enhanced for maximum speed on the latest hardware and work in... Read more

28 September, 2004
Dynamics 1.2

Dynamics 1.2

...single small method call, and readers are encouraged to optimize for the velocity engine separate the calculation into smaller tasks for optimization on multiprocessor machines... Read more

23 August, 2001
Heuris MPEG Power Professional 2.5

Heuris MPEG Power Professional 2.5

...2.0 has been optimized to make full use of the G4s Velocity Engine and the Intel PIII MMX/SSE instruction set. We take full... Read more

9 March, 2000

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