No, Apple, with its 2% share of the PC space, will not materially affect Intel's financial performance. And it probably wouldn't affect IBM too much...
But boy is it bad PR.
And stop with all this "cell" nonsense. Cell is a great ASIC, used as an ASIC by all those game developers, but it's going to be just as bad of a general-purpose processor as all prior generations of game console processors.
Enough, already. by the time Cell has a chance to become a platform in the living room, intel processors will be so cheap, it will become king.
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No, Apple, with its 2% share of the PC space, will not materially affect Intel's financial performance. And it probably wouldn't affect IBM too much...
But boy is it bad PR.
And stop with all this "cell" nonsense. Cell is a great ASIC, used as an ASIC by all those game developers, but it's going to be just as bad of a general-purpose processor as all prior generations of game console processors.
Enough, already. by the time Cell has a chance to become a platform in the living room, intel processors will be so cheap, it will become king.