Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Oct 2005 20:09 UTC
"There have been a few recent PowerPC announcements that have caused the Mac Faithful to wonder anew about The Switch and the "real" reasons behind it. First, there was the 970FX announcement, which clearly showed that IBM is capable of putting out a 970 processor that compares quite well with the Pentium M in performance/watt. And then there's the 970MP, which Apple has used to make a monster of a quad-processor 64-bit RISC workstation. To make matters even more interesting, P.A. Semi has just announced a dual-core 64-bit PowerPC processor SoC that, if the specs and numbers are to be believed, could take PowerPC to a whole new performance/watt level."
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2005-07-06
I don't know why its so hard for people to accept the fact that it was due to future road maps of the two companies.
Because IBM has been meeting their roadmaps, and Intel has not. Intel is currently a joke when speaking of roadmaps. They threw out yet another roadmap just this week.
If the switch is about roadmaps, Apple is in serious trouble. Intel hasn't met a roadmap in more than a year, and isn't expected to meet one for at least two more.