On 08 Jun 2005, at 1:58 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
One chip company on the outside looking in is Advanced Micro Devices
Inc. Several industry analysts said they felt that if Apple was ever
going to move to x86 chips, it might have found AMD a more suitable
partner, given the underdog status of both companies and the
competitiveness of AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors. Apple and
AMD have indeed talked about a relationship at certain points in their
histories and have worked together as members of the Hypertransport
Consortium, said Drew Prairie, an AMD spokesman.
However, Prairie was not able to comment on any recent talks between
AMD and Apple.
I think the main reason Apple didn't go with AMD because that might
easily have meant a continuation of the yield/supply problems that
plagued IBM and Motorola/Freescale. AMD is struggling to keep up with
demand for their processors as it is. Whereas if there's one thing
Intel is good at, it's cranking out bajillions of chips.
- Darcy
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