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Intel Launching 'Merom' Notebook Processor
Hans Pecheston writes "Merom, Intel's notebook processor, will be joining in the festivities at their upcoming launch event. This chip will continue to use the Core 2 Duo brand and should display additional improvements in performance and power consumption over the current chips. Intel has already begun to ship Merom processors to its PC customers and systems with Merom should begin to appear around the end of August."
My laptop came with a Core Duo (Yonah) T2300. The CPU is a little weak at times, so I'd like to upgrade to Merom when available. (The requisite BIOS update has been available for a few months now.) Does anyone know when I'll be able to buy one from a reseller such as Newegg?
I don't know about OS X and Cell - although it does sound insanely cool.
There have been multiple interviews with IBM about their decision to drop Apple as a customer. The main one was with the main PPC exec responsible for dealing with Apple. Although IBM appears to have taken the high road and let Jobs spin things in public. I don't think IBM really cares about the less than 4 percent of their chip business that Apple represented.
There was another informal interview with one of the mid-level IBM PPC guy who gave a laundry list of stupid things Apple did to IBM with chip orders. It sounded like it was a nightmare to work with Apple and IBM had a 'good riddance' attitude after the decision was made a couple years ago to drop them.
There were article earlier this year that talked about Apple going to PASemi after IBM dropped them looking to bail Apple out, but I guess PA wasn't going to be ready in time. Although looking back over the past year and the Intel mess and Apple begging them to move their chips plans forward, PA would have been much better move for Apple.