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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Apple's shift to Intel

The New York Times > Technology > Apple's Next Test: Get Developers to Write Programs for Intel Chips:

"Mr. Jobs said the company would begin incorporating Intel chips in some Macs reaching the market next year and largely complete the changeover by 2008. For the transition, Apple will offer a new version of its operating system, Macintosh OS X Tiger, that will run on both I.B.M. and Intel chips."

Maybe we've reached the point, thanks to Moore's Law where logic gates are truely a commodity and software trumps hardware ?

If the OS is agnostic about the hardware, the hardware, with architecture not as imporant as speed and power consumption, the shift works.

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