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To: dale_laroy who wrote (33561)	3/27/2001 8:51:25 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"The most straight forward explanation would be that IBM is signed on as a potential foundry" Using IBM as a foundry would be the most straight forward explanation, as you note. However, a blue sky, not very likely explanation, would be for AMD to use the same technique that implemented the x86-64 instruction set, to implement a PowerPC one also for Apple. This would give Apple a way to transition to 64 bit x86-64 and be able to use their old code base... I dunno if the PowerPC instruction set and resource requirement is close enough to x86-64 to be possible. But it is interesting.

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