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June 04, 2005

See Change?

The Mac community is abuzz. The rumor of Apple switching to Intel processors has been around for years. It was an issue back in the mid-90s, when Apple tried licensing their ROMs and allowing other manufacturers to release systems that ran MacOS. It became a huge issue in 2001 when it become apparent that Motorola was unable to advance the speed of the G4 processors. It’s arisen again, with rumors that Apple has been talking to Intel due to problems that IBM has had advancing the G5 processors (while at 2.7GHz now, they were supposed to be at 3Ghz a year ago).

C|net just threw a lit match on the tinderpile, with an article claiming that, at next week’s WWDC, Apple will announce a phased migration to Intel starting in 2006.

I still think it more likely that Apple is talking about using Intel chipsets (not processors) for coming hardware, and C|net has been known to have their head up their arse regarding Apple in the past. We’ll see next week…

Posted by jim at June 4, 2005 08:46 AM