Motorola to Boost 0.13-micron PowerPCs

Anonymous Cow writes "From The Register: 'Speculation that Motorola may soon cease to be a supplier of processors to Apple may be premature. The chip maker yesterday said it had successfully implemented low-k dielectric materials in its 0.18 micron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processors, bringing an estimated 20 per cent speed bump to the PowerPC line. Motorola expects to roll out the process on its 0.13 micron chips this month...'"

Comments

Re:20 percent is nice

[Lord_Slepnir]

Sadly, most Macintosh fans would gladly pay this much just so that Aqua doesn't feel like like windows 3.11 on a 486DX-4.

Re:Apple leaving Moto?

[drinkypoo]

Most Mac users (and nearly everyone else) know that the Moto G4 and maybe some upgraded G3 will be part of Apple's consumer products for some time yet.

Most mac users don't know jack about tech. The whole point of the Mac is that any idiot can use it, and idiots frequently do. This is not to say that everyone who uses a mac is a bozo, but only that a lot of bozos use macs.

Now, moving on; The fact is that Motorola cannot even begin to compete with IBM where it matters, which is to say in pushing the envelope. Their semiconductor division simply does not have that kind of power. Only a very small handful of companies have the power to be among the best, and Moto ain't one of them. They should (and will) stick with their embedded market; Expect even smaller-process versions of this same processor to end up in cellphones ere long.