[IP] more on Going for Broke / Apple's Decision to Use Intel Processors Is Nothin...
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From: Newmedia@xxxxxxx
Date: June 13, 2005 3:23:37 PM EDT
To: cbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dave@xxxxxxxxxx, monty@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Going for Broke / Apple's Decision to Use Intel
Processors Is Nothin...
Chris:
Leaving out a counter-rant on Microsoft . . . it is up to Apple to
finance custom G5's for their own products, not IBM.
The G5 is 1/2 of a dual-core Power4 (which IBM did pay for) and as an
ASIC (with only one customer) it is Apple's property -- just as the
ASICs IBM makes for HP, EMC, Cisco are theirs.
IBM has a roadmap that includes the Power5, Power6, etc. and
Freescale also has their roadmap. Apple has a deal to use what it
can from these roadmaps but IBM has no other customers for low-power
laptop parts and such a part isn't (and hasn't ever been) on their
roadmap. IBM didn't fail to deliver anything. Apple failed to pay
the required NRE.
The massive swing to notebooks and the good fortune that Intel has
had with the Pentium M is what forced Apple to do this -- not some
clever plan on Jobs' part. He got caught with his thermal envelope
down.
Sorry,
Mark Stahlman
New York City
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