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作者: IQ博士 时间: 2005-6-4 14:37
标题: 苹果将在周一宣布采用Intel微处理器
Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
Published: June 3, 2005, 5:08 PM PDT
Last modified: June 3, 2005, 5:11 PM PDT
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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update Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.

Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.

The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech. The conference would be an appropriate venue: Changing the chips would require programmers to rewrite their software to take full advantage of the new processor.

IBM, Intel and Apple declined to comment for this story.

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Apple was considering switching to Intel, but many analysts were skeptical citing the difficulty and risk to Apple.

That skepticism remains. "If they actually do that, I will be surprised, amazed and concerned," said Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood. "I don't know that Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Every time they do this, they lose more customers" and more software partners, he said.

Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line jointly made by Motorola and IBM. That switch also required software to be revamped to take advantage of the new processors' performance, but emulation software permitted older programs to run on the new machines. (Motorola spinoff Freescale currently makes PowerPC processors for Apple notebooks and the Mac Mini.)

The relationship between Apple and IBM has been rocky at times. Apple openly criticized IBM for chip delivery problems, though Big Blue said it fixed the issue. More recent concerns, which helped spur the Intel deal, included tension between Apple's desire for a wide variety of PowerPC processors and IBM's concerns about the profitability of a low-volume business, according to one source familiar with the partnership.

Over the years, Apple has discussed potential deals with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, chipmaker representatives have said.

One advantage Apple has this time: The open-source FreeBSD operating system, of which Mac OS X is a variant, already runs on x86 chips such as Intel's Pentium. And Jobs has said Mac OS X could easily run on x86 chips.

The move also raises questions about Apple's future computer strategy. One basic choice it has in the Intel-based PC realm is whether to permit its Mac OS X operating system to run on any company's computer or only its own.

IBM loses cachet with the end of the Apple partnership, but it can take consolation in that it's designing and manufacturing the Power family processors for future gaming consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Ninendo, said Clay Ryder, a Sageza Group analyst.

Indeed, IBM has a "Power Everywhere" marketing campaign to tout the wide use of its Power processors. The chips show up in everything from networking equipment to IBM servers to the most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene/L.

Intel dominates the PC processor business, with an 81.7 percent market share in the first quarter of 2005, compared with 16.9 percent for Advanced Micro Devices, according to Dean McCarron of Mercury Research. Those numbers do not include PowerPC processors. However, Apple has roughly 1.8 percent of the worldwide PC market, he added.

Apple shipped 1.07 million PCs in the first quarter, and its move to Intel would likely bump up the chipmaker's shipments by a corresponding amount, McCarron added.

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos and Richard Shim contributed to this report.

作者: Prescott 时间: 2005-6-4 14:48

Originally posted by IQ博士 at 2005-6-4 14:37
Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
Published: June 3, 2005, 5:08 PM PDT
Last modified: June 3, 2005, 5:11 PM PDT
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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作者: 黑暗之面 时间: 2005-6-4 15:06
周一？？？？還有1天:o:angry::blink::wub::huh:o:)B):):(:angry:

[ Last edited by 黑暗之面 on 2005-6-4 at 15:08 ]

作者: galfood 时间: 2005-6-4 15:10
如果是真的话，就是说PC也可以用上MaC OS了:lol:

作者: anhoper 时间: 2005-6-4 15:13
在哪里看的
怎么国内的门户没有?

作者: xreal 时间: 2005-6-4 15:14
:ermm:没觉得power系列比x86弱，
在游戏机平台上更是独霸。

作者: 笨笨球 时间: 2005-6-4 19:04
是啊.没必要用INETL的吧...都一样了还有什么意思啊

作者: IQ博士 时间: 2005-6-4 19:22

Originally posted by anhoper at 2005-6-4 15:13
在哪里看的
怎么国内的门户没有?

www.cnet.com 亚。

作者: dontknow01 时间: 2005-6-4 19:49
还早哪，桌面要等到 2007 年。

其实早该这样了，这种事越早越好，没必要硬撑。就跟取消 Itanium 一样，哈哈。

作者: earmoon 时间: 2005-6-4 19:59
IBM要更恨Intel了，赶快扶植AMD，抢抢Intel的地盘。不过Opteron的NUMA/MC构架也很容易抢Power5的饭碗。

作者: yfbyte 时间: 2005-6-4 20:16
哈哈``````````那我们有福了...用MAX OS

作者: dontknow01 时间: 2005-6-4 21:23
2007 年虚拟化技术比较普及了，中国用户可以起两个虚拟机，一个运行盗版 Mac OS X，另一个运行盗版 Longhorn（假设能破掉 TPM/DRM 的话）哈。

这样接受度会高不少。

作者: Edison 时间: 2005-6-4 21:25
这虚拟机能安装新的图形卡driver吗？

作者: dontknow01 时间: 2005-6-4 21:48
应该可以的。CPU 硬件支持的虚拟机喔，性能基本不损失的。

作者: 122122 时间: 2005-6-6 13:10
今天?

作者: flyerjian 时间: 2005-6-6 14:46
吼一声，好

作者: 飞天耗子 时间: 2005-6-6 14:56
苹果原来就输在兼容上，但此一时彼一时，现在其仅有的用户也是靠不兼容来维持着，如果同架构统一的话，苹果看来迟早要成为历史了。

作者: chinesehome 时间: 2005-6-6 15:00
真的还是假的?
不过,还是觉得不要用Intel CPU 的好.

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