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Freescale was around and in-contention when Apple made their (latest) deal with the devil. Why didn't Apple jump on it in the first place? The roots of this decision go back to the begining, when Apple, IBM and Motorolla came together to form the PPC alliance. The idea was share and share alike to promote PPC everywhere. Motorolla was quite happy with this arraingement, but IBM was not. IBM forked the development of the PPC because of their late start into the RISC/UNIX marketplace. So, while IBM was making better and better chips for their workstations/servers - they gave lip-service and SLOOOOW progress in evolving the Mac PPC chips. Motorolla did NOTHING to "up the ante" - NEVER becoming a leader in the PPC development. SO Apple had a partnership with a welcher and a wimp. Now that Motorolla split its PPC unit off into Freescale, can you trust them to deliver BETTER processors (revolutionary vs. evolutionary)? This new PPC from Freescale MIGHT look great, but their history says that loafing and status quo are their company values.
If you want to make deals with small fry, why not MIPS? Make the deal with SillyGraphics that you could NEVER seem to do with Sun. This would boost ALL of the companies - more so than the original PPC alliance. Maybe give MATROX a shot at the graphics . . . - Posted by: Roger Ramjet Posted on: 02/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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