At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>> heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. >> >> Motorola's CPUs are now made by its spin-off, Freescale. > >But for consumer CPUs I hear nothing . I see no powerful desktops >brandishing Motorola stickers.
Right. Except for some boxes that run Linux, Motorola/Freescale is basically out of the desktop/laptop biz. T'was never a big market for those companies. Yea, Apple was a drop in their bucket, if that. They were and are doing just fine embedding in other products. That was a big sticking point with Apple: Apple was unable to influence them into prioritizing production of the faster PowerPC chips. ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... > > IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the world, although a >> lot of it is "captive". > >Embedded industrial drones I presume. IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and supersupercomputer markets. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
