Dan wrote: > At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >> >>>> heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. >>> >>> Motorola's CPUs are now made by its spin-off, Freescale. >> >>But for consumer CPUs I hear nothing . I see no powerful desktops >>brandishing Motorola stickers. > > > Right. Except for some boxes that run Linux, Motorola/Freescale is > basically out of the desktop/laptop biz. T'was never a big market > for those companies. Yea, Apple was a drop in their bucket, if that. > They were and are doing just fine embedding in other products. That > was a big sticking point with Apple: Apple was unable to influence > them into prioritizing production of the faster PowerPC chips. > > ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly > after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC > chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... > > >> > IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the world, although a >> >>> lot of it is "captive". >> >>Embedded industrial drones I presume. > > > IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and > supersupercomputer markets. > > - Dan.
And don't forget that MS' X-Box is Power PC. JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
