Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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Perhaps the chip will be some derivation of the Power4, but I have a hard time believing Apple would ever use such a chip in their consumer desktops. The price would have to be around $10-15k to cover the cost of the chip and the ancillary hardware.
Of course, there's the possibility Apple has decided they want to play in the high-end workstation or server space. Obviously, they now have an OS that would allow them to compete against SGI or Sun or even IBM in that space. But don't expect to see a Power4 in your iMac anytime soon.
I did hear an interesting rumour a while ago, to the effect IBM was going to license OS X for their RS6000 workstations. While intriguing, I've never been able to get any kind of follow-up or verification of it. Perhaps that's what this is about.