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.

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