Apple to switch to Intel CPUs? One reason why.

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[GoldSounds] They’re shifting the whole kit and kaboodle to Intel, developers first and then users in a year. They plan to support existing PowerPC apps using some very slick-looking emulation technology, but given the portability of OS X itself and the fact that Apple is giving away their cross-compiler environment to everyone who wants it, I would imagine that every app worth using will support PPC and Intel well before the consumer machines appear.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [Camaban.co.uk] Camaban » Blog Archive Scoble on why Apple go x86 » :The work and ...: Still 'IBM' laptops are one of the market leaders, and it won't harm the Apple brand at all to be running on some of those....Add in Toshiba, Sony and one or two others, and you've got a lot more corporate pulling power....

[Goldsounds.com] GoldSounds: IBM, as a manufacturer of high-end servers as well as the chips that Power them (no pun intended), has a vested interest in protecting its stake in the top-end UNIX market. IBM has readily supplied the desktop-capable FX970 (G5) chips to Apple for some years now, but the high-end POWER4 and POWER5 chips remain strictly IBM only.

[Blog.tmcnet.com] VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets: Gadgets Archives: Joy of Tech Intel + Apple Comic: Here's a comic strip I came across today .AMD, Intel Quad Core in Q1: It seems like only yesterday that Intel and AMD .

 [Neoseeker.com] OS & Software news: Two of the best known graphics companies, Adobe and Macromedia are to become one with Adobe making a $3.4 billion dollar bid for the Flash and Dreamweaver developer.  For web artists, Adobe and Macromedia probably make the most popular software solutions with Adobe's Photoshop and Macromedia Flash.  Previously seen as competitors with raging debate between raster and vector graphics, Adobe and Macromedia products turned out to be more complimentary rather than directly competitive.  It will be neat to see if some other products like Premiere takes a few cues from Flash which shares the same sort of principles when stringing together animations and layers.

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Posted at June 24, 2005 04:22 PM