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for speculation on Apple's current or future plans, or Apple's
relationships with its vendors, or its patent portfolio.
FYI, I think you mean "RISC", not "RISK". I would recommend
researching your speculation more carefully, citing specific and
reputable sources, and taking this discussion to a more appropriate
list.
Shantonu
On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Darren Means wrote:
I Can't tell you who it was that said this to me. He may have no
more knowledge about this than I do, but this is what I heard.
Apple maintained some of the rights to the chip architecture (so I
should have said co-owned). The fact that this is a RISK processor
as well as using the vaporized copper allows the Chips to run much
faster at lower clock speeds (albeit much hotter). This sounds good
to me but I am not an engineer so this may be a bunch of bull. The
reason for the move was IBM fell far behind on Chip production, and
was going to fall farther behind because they are gearing up to
provide chips for MS's XBOX 360. They also promised a 3GHz and a G5
mobile processor which they did not deliver. I was also told that
the lower powered machines like the Mac Mini will be running on
straight intel chips. The 2007 date is to allow time for the
processor tool-up for the big Machines.
On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Justin Walker wrote:
On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:58, Darren Means wrote:
It is my understanding that Apple owns a certain amount of the
chip architecture. The processor is mainly a risk processor and
the technology uses vaporized copper instead of aluminum. They
have promised some of the rights to the technology to intel if
they are willing to re-tool and mfg. chips for Apple. Mind you
this is what I have heard so all of this could be way off.
Ummm...what bar were you in when you heard this, and who was
buying your drinks? :-}
Apple has been using Moto/IBM PowerPC processors for years now. I
don't think there is any proprietary Apple technology in the
processor side of things, and Intel has their hands full with
their own core technology; they don't need Apple's help for that
:-}.
Of course, I am always ready to learn otherwise...
Regards,
Justin
--
Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
Institute for General Semantics
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Some people have a mental horizon of radius zero, and
call it their point of view.
-- David Hilbert
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