billchase wrote:
I don't think Apple's decision will have as much effect on the
supply of PPC chips available (or its future) as many people
are making it out to be. There are many devices that use
PPC as its core, (xbox360 just to name one mainstream device).
Apple was only one school of fish in the sea, there are still
plenty others.
C Snyder
Probably, but I think one thing that will happen is fewer advancements to the line of CPU's. Now that the maket is mostly embedded controllers, etc, I think most R&D will be for power and heat related performance issues rather than desktop performance. Not that's that a bad thing, but I think as time goes on, the PPC will become less and less suitable as the right tool for the job in desktops or general purpose CPU requiring applications, assuming this inertia doesn't change direction. (who knows maybe Microsoft decides PPC is the way to go and things would change again. :-P)
