Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:43 UTC, submitted by Hakime Seddik
P.A. Semi, a 150-employee chip startup, wants to make name for itself through attention to detail. The Silicon Valley chip startup, run by chip legend Dan Dobberpuhl-Dobberpuhl, its CEO, presided over the development of the Alpha processor while at Digital Equipment Corp. lifted its veil of secrecy Monday. The company will begin offering a new family of low-power, multicore, PowerPC architecture processors in 2006.
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It is becoming more and more apparent to me that Apple lied about their reasoning to switch to Intel. They blamed the lack of a future roadmap, and the lack of speed.
Lack of a roadmap? Freescale has plans to built 8-core G4s! IBM *just* put out those dual-core G5s and low power G5s. And even a minor company like this can produce these fast PPC processors. And I didn't even mention Cell!
We can only guess after the true reasons behind the switch (probably something to do with Intel being able to supply chips at every level), but it has nothing to do with a lack of progress in the PPC world.
I wish Apple would have been more honest and open about this.