[rescue] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

Michael-John Turner mj at turner.org.za
Mon Jun 6 01:42:16 CDT 2005


On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 05:34:20PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> and failing, at least a little.  i hear microsoft is backing the
> opteron over any intel x86-64.

Well, Intel have adopted the AMD 64-bit extensions rather than developing
their own (the new Xeons have the same extensions as the Athlon64/Opteron).
Quite a change for them to be following in the x86 market...

-mj
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