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To: Perry who wrote (9401)	3/13/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 213173

Apple 400MHz power PC chip based on IBM's copper interconnect technology............ Posted: 9:00 p.m. EST, 3/12/98 (EE Times) Apple to show prototype copper-based PowerPC By Ron Wilson NEW YORK - Apple Computer Inc. is preparing to demonstrate the first CPU built in copper-metalization technology, sources have told EE Times. At the Seybold Seminars scheduled for March 16-20 in New York, Apple's interim chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, will show a Macintosh computer running at 400-MHz with a prototype PowerPC chip from IBM Microelectronics, according to industry insiders. The demonstration not only represents a step forward in Macintosh performance, but also the emergence of a delicate political problem for Apple. The company has struggled to maintain good relationships with both IBM and Motorola, the suppliers of PowerPC processors. But a gap is opening between the process capabilities IBM and Motorola as IBM's copper-metalization process comes on line, insiders said. Such a gap could make it difficult if not impossible for Motorola to continue as an alternate source of high-end PowerPC CPUs.