Re: FN-FORUM: Proccessor Info

date posted 29th January 2005 18:39

On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 1:36 pm, Derek Clarke wrote:

> Does anyone else think it's funny that IBM have never put their own chi=
ps
> into one of their PCs since their failed attempt to push PowerPC in the
> beginning?

I don't think that's strictly true. IBM manufactured (and also badged)
Cyrix-designed x86 chips and did use them in some of its own badged PCs.
And I think the PowerPC had come out by then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix

IBM generally don't bother with low-end processors anyway. By low-end=20
I do mean Pentium 4 and what have you. IBM's POWER architecture
(related to PowerPC but different) is doing quite nicely for them, thanky=
ou:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/ibm_power5_moores_law/