Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Feb 2006 18:49 UTC
IBM is expected to demonstrate a blade server next week based on the Cell processor the company is developing with Toshiba and Sony. The Cell processor, which also is the brains of Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 videogame console, has a PowerPC processing core supplemented by eight special-purpose cores to boost the chip's calculation abilities.
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2005-07-06
I don't think that Apple will switch back anytime soon.
The only quick switch I could see Apple do is with AMD. They could have had 64Bits everywhere, right now, with AMD. On the desktop and Server (Athlon64 or Opteron) and laptop (Turion64). Even with DualCore for the Athlon and Opteron, and i'm sure AMD will be there soon with a Turion64 X2...
Why move back to PPC?