Intel and Steve Jobs rumor - interesting update.

[GulGnu]

Turns out the much-disputed looprumors photo of an apple logo at an intel conference was most likely true. (my jugement). The person who supplied the original photo has supplemented it with another one of Jobs actually speaking at the conference, as well as Job's Pixar moving to Intel hardware. There seems to be other sources confirming this info. The poster also supplies some additional info pointing towards Intel trying to get Apple on board.


www.looprumors.com

and

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...5&pagenumber=6

Regards / GulGnu

-Stabil som fan!

[sjb2016]

I'm no detective, but things are getting curiouser and curiouser

[twister]

so what's that mean? X on intel?

[GroundZeroX]

I don't see it happening. Apple has done so many things to make Intel chips look inferior, that they would be shooting themselves in the foot. One of the key things in business is the ability to separate one thing from another. While Pixar may have switched to Intel from the Sun platform, I don't see this as a reason for his other company to switch to Intel based CPU's. It would take a massive programming effort to go to Intel based processors, because while OS X would easily be ported, all the other Apps won't be so lucky. Another thing to keep in mind is the life-cycle that X86 still has in it. Intel is now pushing its Itanium processors which run on VLIW, to be the next generation of processors. I don't think X86 has more then 5 years left in it in the consumer market.

[mfsri]

Intel is a company that makes chips. Why can't they make one processor for windows based systems and another for OS X systems?

[GroundZeroX]

MFSRI, designing a chip isn't a simple task. this type of thing takes years of research and engineering to do. Intel is in the market of volume, and Apple doesn't sell high enough volume to justify the expense and time it takes to produce a chip for them.

[Pengu]

While I doubt it's going to happen, there is of course a slim possibility that Intel is going to buy out Motorolla's share in the PPC consortium (Apple, IBM & Motorolla)

[RyanLang]

Don't get me wrong, I know the high end graphics market and the desktop market are two totally different animals, but if you download the audio clip from looprumors and listen to Steve say "we ditched the suns and we now have a room full of pentiums" it just sounds very strange. I'm just so used to Jobs insulting the pentium.