[X4U] Apple to move to Intel

Rod Buchanan lists at sofstats.com
Sun Jun 5 11:04:27 PDT 2005


On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:07 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:

> On 6/4/05, at 7:57 PM, John McG, <ensignjd at optonline.net> said:
>
>> One thing nobody seems to have considered is that maybe Intel has
>> been licensed to produce the IBM G5 chips since IBM is going to
>> produce G5 chips for the X-Box and Apple. Maybe IBM can't guarantee
>> the quantity Apple is expecting?
>
> Didn't IBM make X86 chips for an Intel competitor? Cyrix or AMD?

Cyrix, I believe.  In the 80's IBM also was licensed by Intel to mfg  
8086/8088 and I think 80286 processors.

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Rod

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