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Post #210,701
by tonytib
6/9/05 7:09:44 PM
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New It appears IBM's direction has changed
from PC's (Macs) to game consoles. Between XBox, PS/3, and Nintendo
Revolution they'll sell a lot more chips than being one of two Apple suppliers.

Overall, PowerPC is doing OK. And remember, the most popular 32-bit CPU is the ARM chip -- just about everyone uses at least one ARM chip (cell phone, router, etc). TI ships more CPU's than Intel (50% of cell phone market vs 85% of PC market).

Tony
Post #210,769
by Meerkat
6/10/05 6:05:06 AM
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New Maybe a cell will be MacIntel's new Altivec?
It'd make a good 'Your Dell will never run OS X' dongle too.

Sure it's far-fetched... but hey, that's what they said about Intels in Macs... :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
     Cringely - as usual - has an interesting take on Mactel move - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:27:10 AM EDT
         Interesting. - (Another Scott) - (4) - June 9, 2005, 05:52:39 PM EDT
             The Cell - (altmann) - June 9, 2005, 06:11:57 PM EDT
             If they are disenchanted with IBM... - (admin) - June 9, 2005, 06:15:35 PM EDT
             It appears IBM's direction has changed - (tonytib) - (1) - June 9, 2005, 07:09:44 PM EDT
                 Maybe a cell will be MacIntel's new Altivec? - (Meerkat) - June 10, 2005, 06:05:06 AM EDT

I liked Dragon Ball Z better; it didn't try as hard to be idiotic.
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