Almost 2 years after first rumours on PowerPC 970 MP IBM today announced it at the Power Everywhere Forum in Tokyo .

With two CPU cores, just as the recent AMD Athlon and Intel processors have, it is practically a dual cpu sytem on one chip. CPU frequency is from 1,4 Ghz to 2,5 Ghz. Each core has 1 MB L2 Cache, and contrary to AMD and Intel dual cores, one of them can even be deactivated during operation... I suggest this is only interesting for power-saving modes in notebooks, but notable anyway.

The notebook design is supported by low-power variants of the PowerPC 970 FX, running at 1,4 Ghz with only 13 Watts, 16 at 1,6 Ghz.

Altough with recent news of Apple using Intel CPUs, it's still unsure if this advantage will find a way into the power/ibooks design.