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Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant

Posted by Hemos on from the is-it-anything dept.

6031769 writes "ZD Net are reporting a rumour that Steve Jobs will announce Apple are going to move to an Intel chip base at their worldwide developer conference today. Still just a rumour, but could this be the masterstroke Apple have been promising or is it a blind alley?" Lots of submissions about this one, but no one knows for sure - there have been stories about how AMD is hurt by this - but I think my favorite debunking of it is the piece by John Gruber on Daring Fireball.

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  1. Very rampant... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    At this point pretty much everyone is saying something about it: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=nn&ie=UT F-8&ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4612 951.stm

  2. What is all the fuss about? (El Reg) by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Register weighs in with two articles this morning.

    Apple shifts to Intel: What is all the fuss about

    Apple to announce Intel 'Switch' - WSJ

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  3. fact vs fiction by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative
    Fact: intel is not just a one trick (or 386 trick) pony.

    Fact: NeXT used an i860 (64-bit RISC) graphics accelerator. Manufactured by Intel.

    Fact: Intel manufactures ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) processors.

    Intel knows a thing or about RISC chips. Intel manufacturing PPCs is far more probable than Apple jumping to x86.

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  4. Re:Could be a disaster.... by teslar · · Score: 5, Informative
    Can you say binary incompatability?
    This is where this bit of information comes in:
    Industry sources also say Apple is a licensee of Transitive's QuickTransit virtual processor technology, which allows anything to run on Intel x86 (and vice versa) via dynamic instruction translation.
  5. Confirmed (via engadget) by Augusto · · Score: 5, Informative

    10:26am PDT - "Now, let's go to the big topic: Transitions."

    10:27am PDT - 1994-1996 Moto 68K -> PowerPC. "I wasn't hear then, but from everything I hear the team did a great job." 2001-2003: OS9 - OS X.

    10:28am PDT - "It's time for a third transition. And yes, (puts up slide that says): It's true." Next slide is one word: "Why?"

    10:29am PDT - "I stood up two years ago and promised this (3.0G PowerMac), and we haven't been able to deliver." Steve says it's bigger than that, though. No roadmap for the future based on PowerPC - they can't see a future.

    10:30am PDT - Intel offers not just increased performance, but reduced power consumption. Transition will be complete by WWDC '07.

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