Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

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Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:07:03 +0100, Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>
>>And in fact, can you even use it in a desktop machine 
>>yet?
>
>Yes, and yes. In fact Apple is using AMD's "HyperTransport" bus to
>connect their PCI and I/O controllers.

One thing I find really funny about Apple these days is
how they try to deny AMD out of existence.  In 2000,
when the Athlon K7 was introduced, it was the same
thing.  All you heard from Apple was G3 vs. PIII even
though the highest performing PC processor at the
time was an AMD part.

In fact, for the G5 motherboard I have read from
the AMD sites that Apple actually worked quite
closely with AMD to implement the HyperTransport
and the G5 being an IBM part and IBM being a
partner of AMD, the G5 and Opteron bear many
similarities.

Meanwhile, on the marketing side AMD does not
exist to Apple.

Maybe in another 5 to 10 years, we'll see the AMD
logo in an Apple advertisement just like suddenly,
we see the IBM logo now.  ;-)