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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Apple should pick a CPU that is popular next time around. They have traditionally chosen off-the-main-path CPU's so customers have to pay top dollar for Apple's hard-to-afford-ware.
If Apple cut a deal with Intel, I bet they could get Itanium for a very reasonable price. Looking at the workstations, specifically the xz6000, that HP is able to field, the Itanium would make a great processor Apple.
The basics of the good HP Itanium workstation:
http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/itanium/zx6000/summary.html
The performance Apple would be able to achieve:
http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/performance/index.html
Yes, Hammer would be a good bet too. Itanium is shipping today, however, and Intel would be fabulous technology partner.
If Apple shipped 1 million Itanium workstations, it would be a huge success for both Apple and Intel.
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