Via the AP: Report: Apple Switching to Intel Chips
A stormy, decade-long relationship between Apple Computer Inc. and IBM is over, according to published reports. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce Monday morning at the company’s software developers conference in San Francisco that Apple will discontinue using microprocessor chips made by IBM in favor of Intel chips, according to CNET Networks Inc.’s News.com and The Wall Street Journal.[...]
Switching to Intel’s x86 chips would force Apple’s programmers to rewrite its software in order to adapt to the new processor.
Intetersting.
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June 6th, 2024 at 10:11 am
Switching to Intel’s x86 chips would force Apple’s programmers to rewrite its software in order to adapt to the new processor.
Somehow, I don’t think this is the way it’s going to work.
This has been in the rumor mill for a couple of months, at least. I’m unfamiliar with the chip process, but I can’t see Jobs destroying all the goodwill built by OS 10 with bad chips and software rewrites.
Still, from what I understand, it’s going to allow them to speed up the powerbooks, which they can’t do with the g5.