Re(2): [Ti] A different view on Intel/Apple marriage

[Robert Ameeti]

At 10:18 AM -0400, 6/7/05, John Griffin wrote:

>I have always believed the same information and propaganda about the 
>superiority of the PowerPC. However the following is a quote from 
>Jobs yesterday:
>
>"Intel processors provide more performance per watt than PowerPC 
>processors do, said Jobs. "When we look at future roadmaps, mid-2006 
>and beyond, we see PowerPC gives us 15 units of performance per 
>watt, but Intel's roadmap gives us 70. And so this tells us what we 
>have to do," he explained"
>
>So why the sudden turn-around? Which claim is correct - the one we 
>have always been led to believe or this sudden shift the other way?
>
>jg

They both are correct in that they are a comparison of apples and 
oranges. The earlier is a comparison of operations processed per unit 
of time. The new comparison is operations processed per unit of heat. 
At some point, heat becomes a significant factor and you have to go 
with a cooler chip else you'll have a really fast engine that 
overheats and burns itself up.
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