100,000 ordered?

[sr ferenczy]

looking good so far, lets just hope production can keep up at fishkill. 
if IBM can pull 50 chips off a 300 mm wafer, that could mean 25,000 
chips a day.  if 1/3 of these wafer goes to apple (apple, ibm and 
nvidia are supposedly who are getting all the various chips from 
fishkill) that could still potentially be 40,000 chips a week for 
apple.  (thats all assuming about 50% yield, and the nvidia chips 
"arent announced" yet so more of the line might go to apple, and it is 
not including the G5s that are being produced in burlington...) it 
seems like if nothing less, IBM will be able to out produce apples 
ability to sell. glad to see motorola gone =)

sandor



http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1221912,00.asp

"He declined to release specific production numbers for the Fishkill 
facility, but said that a typical 300-mm wafer fab produces 500 to 600 
wafer starts per day. Any loss will likely be a minor one, O'Leary 
said."


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18NECO.html



For Those Needing 32 More Bits

By JOHN MARKOFF

   APPLE COMPUTER  has recently received much applause  for its iTunes 
music service. But  its new Power Mac G5 computers, set to arrive in 
stores today, will probably have a much larger impact on the world of 
personal computing.
Apple already has 100,000 orders for its G5 machines, which are priced 
at $2,000 to $3,000, depending on the configuration. The breakthrough 
is that the  computers  use 64-bit microprocessors, a significant step 
beyond the 32-bit processors on current Apple machines and most 
Windows-based PC's.....