The G3s really are very good chips, and for consumer-level apps they can still be very useful. One gigahertz plus G3s would be welcome, particularly at low cost.
the G3 in the iBook already is an IBM chip, iirc.
Half the PowerPC chips Apple used to start with were IBMs. PowerPC was a joint Motorola/IBM project (I have an IBM 601 in my 7100). and they have gone to using almost totally IBM stock in the last 18 months as Motorola have lost interest in the G3 altogether. As Motorola own the rights to Altivec and the G4 pattern with it on, IBM can't make them. However IBM see that Motorola are pushing everything into their 64-bit CPU line and may well lose interest in the G4 as they did in the G3, thusly they can offer Motorola a tidy sum to get Altivec and use it on their G3 patterns. Also IBM have improved the G3 design progressively in recent years (we now have 900MHz chips - something the original G3 design would have melted at).
For the record, I have 3 G3s and they are all IBM, one is a B&W (July 1999), one an iBook 300Mhz (1999) and the other is a Sonnet upgrade card in a 7300 (2000). I have in my time come across numerous other PPCs that have been IBM, in fact I don't think I've actually found a Motorola one although I'm sure there is one lurking under one of my heatsinks somewhere!
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