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It's true the Athlon is based on some work derived from the Alpha processor, but IBM also worked with AMD on the Opteron and Atholon64 chips to resolve some of the issues, and has a manufacturing contract with AMD to produce chips in IBM fabs. I'm wouldn't doubt there is some cross-licensing going on that gives AMD access to parts of the Power processor family, especially where dual-core may be involved.

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Wow the power of a POWER5 in a x86 Chip  nucrash | 11/15/04
You sure it was the Power5 chip ???  MrEMann | 11/15/04
Could be  jheine | 11/15/04
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