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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apart from not being cost efective for IBM to fab. how much performance will be lost in cache reduction for desktop units (1mb? 2mb?), the cost increase to apple to make new mobo design with higher pin count, higher wattage required to run it. it all adds up. require active cooling (making teh hush hush imac no longer hush hush)