P.A. Semi’s major PowerPC announcement, and looking back at The Switch
The full Arstechnica article is well worth reading!
...And while this search is carried out in forums like the Machintoshian Achaia, I will.sit back and give a big, fat, Nelson Ha-ha! to the participants. Ever since The Switch I’ve been preaching that Jobs’s stated reasons for moving to Intel are bogus, and that Apple really cares more about gadgets going forward than it does about the Mac line (Part I and Part II). The Switch proves, I’ve argued, that the Mac line is no longer the foundation for Apple’s future growth, and it could very well go bye-bye.
I’ve been flamed furiously for my blasphemy, but whether my flamers will acknowledge it or not I’m now having the last laugh. P.A. Semi., IBM’s 970FX/MP, POWER5, and the next-generation of game console chips all show that the book is by no means closed on PowerPC. In fact, we’re in the opening moments of a full-blown PowerPC Renaissance. Who knows how long the PPC revival will last, but Apple would’ve been hard pressed to pick a worse time to jump ship for performance or performance/watt reasons…