Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Aug 2006 17:22 UTC, submitted by Mike Ainsel
MacSlash has an original editorial regarding different PowerPC projects that never made it to shipping. It mentions things like the obscure PowerPC 615 that could run x86 instructions, or the PowerPC 750VX, which would have been IBM's answer to the Motorola G4. This article reads like a requiem, but lest we forget: here, here, here, and of course, here. I'm starting to believe IBM won't miss Apple all that much.
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It's not really fair to count the 970 R&D seperate from the PowerPC R&D. The cost to design the 970 as a whole architecture was probably not appreciably less than the cost to design Core 2 or K8. and of course, don't forget the expense of maintaining high-end chip fabrication capabilities, which costs enormous amounts of money. In reality, all this stuff, for IBM, is subsidized by their server business. IBM Microelectronics usually loses money.