Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Feb 2007 21:56 UTC
Remember PA Semi? The company has just released, as promised, its first chipset. "They are full 64-bit PPC, support virtualisation, and would do Alitvec but that name is copyrighted by Freescale. Instead they do 'VMA'. The three parts run at a max wattage of 25, 15 and 10W for the 2.0, 1.5 and 1.0GHz parts respectively, with typical wattage listed at 13, 8 and 6W. The individual cores are said to have a 7W max and 4W typical power consumption at 2.0GHz." PA Semi was one of the prime reasons why Ars's John 'Hannibal' Stokes doubted Apple's reasoning for the switch to Intel.
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Fact is, you cannot at the same time describe a supplier as "running standard hardware for close to a decade" AND as designing its own hardware. The two are incompatible.
There's a far cry between Apple restricting the specs for their computers and Microsoft hoping an unknown Taiwanese mobo plant builds an integrated board that doesn't fry itself or defy a hardware standard. Soyo makes tons of mobos with inexpensive, commodity integrated ethernet chips which are notorious for overheating and self-destructing.
If either of us had a nickel for the number of mobos that duplicate video, audio and/or ethernet between the onboard chipset and their replacements, we'd be rich.
There is a difference, and it isn't semantic.