[X4U] Apple to move to Intel

[Randy B.Singer]

John McG said:

>One thing nobody seems to have considered is that maybe Intel has  
>been licensed to produce the IBM G5 chips 

That would be a shocking development.  I doubt that IBM would ever allow 
it.

>since IBM is going to  
>produce G5 chips for the X-Box and Apple. 

IBM is not going to be producing G5 or PowerPC chips for either Microsoft 
or Sony for their game platorms.  

The X-Box is migrating to a custom processor with three cores made by 
IBM.  Microsoft is using G5's for beta testing bacause there is quite a 
bit of 
similarity, but the X-Box processor is a custom game platform processor, 
not a PowerPC.

Sony is migrating to the Cell processor, which once again has some 
similarities to the PowerPC processor, but the Cell processor as it is is 
not an appropriate processor for a personal computer.  If it was 
appropriate for use in a personal computer, Apple would probably be 
on-board to use it.

>Maybe IBM can't guarantee  
>the quantity Apple is expecting?

That has never been mentioned by any of the parties involved.  I suspect 
that IBM can produce any quantity that there is a demand for by expanding 
its production facilities.





Randy B. Singer
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