[texanpenguin]

They're Pentiums, as shown on the WWDC broadcast on the About This Mac Window.

It's a full change to the x86 architecture.

The PPC was designed by the A.I.M. consortium (Apple, IBM, Motorola). IBM as good as owns it now. There's a rumour (possibly authenticated) that IBM was refusing to license the POWER6 chip to Apple (which would have been the G6).


I think it's an ego move from Jobs (IBM holds out on me, we'll go elsewhere) without considering the sides properly. PPC chips (from IBM) are having a large amount of money pumped into them at the moment from outside A.I.M. - the console market, particularly. More money pumped in means that the production facilities will improve. I think 3GHz G5s aren't that far off, in that respect. The x86 strain has run its course - Intel claims that expecting 4GHz from a Pentium is unrealistic. He did say, though, that Intel was committed to Moore's Law (from memory that the MHz speed increases double every four years or words to that effect), meaning they must have a strategy. Both Jobs and Intel guy said that their future roadmap looks good.

Be interesting to read that.

I have confidence in Apple, though.