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Apple and assumed they were the driving force behind it's use Quite the opposite. Apple, according to the book The Race for a New Game Machine, was an unprofi
by protomyth 7y ago
Apple and assumed they were the driving force behind it's use
Quite the opposite. Apple, according to the book The Race for a New Game Machine, was an unprofitable demanding customer. The scale of the XBox 360 and PS3 dwarfed Apple's usage and IBM made several decisions that were contrary to Apple's needs. PowerPC for the embedded market has been the primary driver of PowerPC development.
- rbanffy 7y agoAt some point IBM offered Apple the Cell processor. I'm glad Apple opted to move to Intel then. The Cell is the hardest thing I ever tried to write code for.
- protomyth 7y agoIBM made decisions about the Cell PowerPC that made it unsuitable for Apple (no out of order) and offered the 970 as compensation. We all got to see how those promises played out.