-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick McNamara wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote: > >> I don't know. Besides the CPUs and some other support hardware >> for z-series and ppc, I'm not sure what else they make. They do >> have research labs, however. >> >> >> > IBM is actually a huge semiconductor company. They are actually > one of TIs top competitors. They just don't have the mindshare as > such. The make the Power series CPUs, the PPC obviously, but they > also make a lot of ASICs as well. > I belive they're also the fab for AMD aren't they? I remember one talk from a hardware IBM guy back in the 90's. He wasn't concerned at all about Intel chips shipping in every PC out there (This was just before they killed the Power Personal series), because for every system sold Intel had 1 CPU and IBM had a handful of chips for controllers etc. IBM have huge facilities. IIRC the fab of CPU's for Apple was 2-3% of the capacity of that particular facility... The same fab will (Is?) building cell processors for Sony, and PPC for XBox & Nintendo revolution. Then there's the 8 odd PPC (embedded) CPU's per Ford etc. H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC8Hsn/3QXwQQkZYwRAjmzAJ9b7l6lQE2L7hJnsTUZHLZCQs78XQCghSUh 2Yr5dhMF1P8lE02VdvbXVKI= =S43h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
