john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQzMDM > > Kind of interesting. Hope people don't mind the fact that it is not about > the z.
Folklore is that Apple moved to Intel because IBM decided to focus on servers and weren't keeping up with low-power chips for laptops and tablets. There was Somerset & AIM (apple, ibm, motorola) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC from above: However, toward the close of the decade, manufacturing issues began plaguing the AIM alliance in much the same way they did Motorola, which consistently pushed back deployments of new processors for Apple and other vendors: first from Motorola in the 1990s with the G3 and G4 processors, and IBM with the 64-bit G5 processor in 2003. In 2004, Motorola exited the chip manufacturing business by spinning off its semiconductor business as an independent company called Freescale Semiconductor. Around the same time, IBM exited the 32-bit embedded processor market by selling its line of PowerPC products to Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) and focusing on 64-bit chip designs ... and ... The IBM-Freescale alliance was replaced by an open standards body called Power.org. Power.org operates under the governance of the IEEE with IBM continuing to use and evolve the PowerPC processor on game consoles and Freescale Semiconductor focusing solely on embedded devices. ... snip ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power.org trivia, the executive we reported to when we were doing IBM's HA/CMP ... went over to head up the Somerset (Apple, IBM, and Motorola designing power/pc chips) ... he had previously come from Motorola Note that Google, part of OpenPOWER, now owns Motorola. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
