Moto is looking for a buyer for PowerPC

[andyduncan]

Originally posted by maradong
g3 is an ibm chip...

Is, but not was. Mot and IBM were both suppliers of the original 750 that went into the beige G3s.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Ouch?

"Sources said Apple's goal for Smeagol is to deliver Mac OS X performance at least "on par" with what Jaguar could achieve on Motorola G4 chips running at the same speed..."

 

[Pancake]

I officially offer Moto my entire savings account for what they are selling. Coupled to my piggy bank, it comes to about $14.35. The ball is your court Moto.

 

[wdlove]

Originally posted by andyduncan
Is, but not was. Mot and IBM were both suppliers of the original 750 that went into the beige G3s.

Well I learned something new today. Wonder why Apple didn't stay with IBM?

 

[avus]

Originally posted by Pancake
I officially offer Moto my entire savings account for what they are selling. Coupled to my piggy bank, it comes to about $14.35. The ball is your court Moto.

Nah, you are overpaying - I mean, I feel that Motorola needs to pay you or someone in order to get rid off its ancient facilities and underdeveloped chip architectures. No wonder there isn't anyone willing to pay even a penny for them.

 

[Pancake]

Originally posted by avus
Nah, you are overpaying - I mean, I feel that Motorola needs to pay you or someone in order to get rid off its ancient facilities and underdeveloped chip architectures. No wonder there isn't anyone willing to pay even a penny for them.

You are forgetting that the $14.35 price point would require Moto to stop thier factories from produces computer chips, and start them producing chips of the chocolate variety, with the mandatory hypernougat dual fugde core.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

If i was moto i would be unloading all my old g4's to Sonnet,Powerlogix,Giga,Mercury Extreme. Give that upgrade market all of it cheap. They have been overcharging for g4's for too too long. Now with that said I see a Ibm chip in my future.

 

[tazznb]

Originally posted by maradong
g3 is an ibm chip...

BUT the name "G" naming convention belongs to Apple

 

[macdong]

Re: Re: AMD in an Apple, heaven forbid, NO!

Originally posted by hvfsl
I would prefer PPC970 Macs over AMD/Intel, but the powerpc chip has a history of starting out very fast and then over time not being able to keep up with x86 chips. I just hope we dont see what has happened to the G4 (not increasing in speed much comparred to Intel/AMD) happening to the PPC970.

That's the history of Motorola, not PowerPC chip