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Speculation on Real Reasons Behind Apple Switch
/ASCII writes "There is an article over at Ars Technica with some insider information about the reasons behind Apples x86 switch, given that the new IBM processors seem to be a perfect fit for Apple. The article claims that Apple hopes to power its entire line, from Servers to desktops to iPods and other gadgets with Intel CPUs, and that by doing so, they will gain the same kinds of discounts that Dell get."
AMD chose a differant design, which sacrificed a lot of transistors for x86 compatibility, limiting the scalability and performance of their chip.
Um... Intel did the same thing, but worse. IA-64, or the Itanium architecture, or whatever Intel wants you to call it this year spent tons of transistors on X86 compatibility, and the performance and scalability sucked. Not only that, but the compatability wasn't that great and the chips have all but failed in the marketplace.