Yeah this rumor has been floating around for a little while. Everyone is wondering if they will go with AMD or Intel, and there has been a lot of speculation back and forth. The one thing that strongly hints them going with AMD is that they are already a part of the AMD founded Hypertransport consortium, AMD's IC interconnect technology, along with Sun, who has also been rumored to be looking at the Hammer as well. You can see their logo's on the front page of the site. http://www.hypertransport.org/
I think there is probably internal debate still as to wether to go with IBM's new 64 bit chip or go to AMD's. I think everyone agrees they need to get rid of Motorola, and I'm not sure how Mac people would feel about having an Intel inside :). Here is a quote from aceshardware.com. "IBM's new PowerPC seems particularly interesting with a design rooted in the high-end POWER4 and the addition of a vector processing unit. Could this chip make it into Apple's next-generation systems? One of the reasons Apple has been buying chips strictly from Motorola is Motorola's Altivec extensions, but if IBM has now implemented something similar in a high-performance (non-embedded) CPU, it could be quite a boost for Apple" -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, September 6, 2002, 10:26:38 AM, you wrote: LL> -- LL> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,496270,00.asp LL> August 30, 2002 LL> Apple Keeps x86 Torch Lit with 'Marklar' LL> By Matthew Rothenberg, and Nick dePlume, Think Secret LL> As Apple Computer Inc. draws up its game plan for the CPUs that will power LL> its future generations of Mac hardware, the company is holding an ace in the LL> hole: a feature-complete version of Mac OS X running atop the x86 LL> architecture. LL> According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been working LL> steadily on maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of its Unix-based OS. LL> The project (code-named Marklar, a reference to the race of aliens on the LL> "South Park" cartoons) has been ongoing inside Apple since the early days of LL> its transition to the Unix-based Mac OS X in the late '90s. LL> -- LL> Interesting food for thought. LL> larry ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
