IBM confirms PowerPC partnership with Motorola
Rich , seems the Embedded CPU Conference got all those microprocessor reporters worked up into greatly exaggerating MOT/AIM's death .
IBM's 5/5/99 announcement deals with embedded (ASICs) CPUs so AAPL is not mentioned but it should end doubt about MOT being a PowerPC partner:
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" IBM and Motorola define
new PowerPC architecture
for embedded applications
San Jose, CA, May 5, 1999
IBM and Motorola (NYSE:MOT) today disclosed
details of an enhanced PowerPC microprocessor
architecture designed to expand the use of the
processor in embedded applications such as
networking infrastructure and telecommunications
solutions.
The new architecture, developed by both
companies in a collaborative project code named
"Book E," is intended to provide customers greater
consistency between the two companies'
embedded PowerPC implementations while
allowing for maximum flexibility in design to adapt
the processor for new applications.
The new architecture is also designed to
maintain software compatibility with existing PowerPC generations. "
chips.ibm.com
The confusion may have arose when IBM , for marketing reasons , choose to rename AIM's version of IBM's 604e models to come as PowerPC 750 .
For example IBM's RS/6000 can run with six 604e 266mz PowerPCs . I can hear a SUNW sales rep saying to a prospect: "buy six iMACs , my SUNW machine and pocket the $500,000 savings" .
Jim K. |
