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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the costs of power4 are high, when you consider that each contains 8 processors, and buttloads of cache. This can be reduced somewhat by reducing the specifications, and going to a smaller process, but the biggest savings would be economics of scale. If IBM only sells a million of these a year or so, apple can certainly deliver another million or so units a year, and probably 2 milion in the first year. And that's if they don't gain any market share. Which they hopefully would if they could release hardware that didn't "feel" like 2 year old wintel stuff at 1.2x the cost. (that's what windows ppl like to say)