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To: Francis Chow who wrote (56073)	5/26/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

IBM hedges its bets: IBM Hedges On PowerPC (05/26/98; 11:47 a.m. EST) By Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek IBM continues to stand behind its Unix-on-PowerPC RS/6000 platform, but it has quietly begun work on a version of its Unix operating system, AIX, for Intel's forthcoming Merced chip. The move, confirmed by an IBM (company profile) executive, appears to be an attempt by Big Blue to hedge its bets in case Intel's 64-bit chip becomes a runaway success -- at the expense of PowerPC. IBM has not gone so far as to retrofit the RS/6000 for Merced, or to devise a marketing strategy, said the IBM executive, but that could change if the release of Merced, expected sometime next year, becomes the watershed event many people said they are predicting. So, what is in store for the PowerPC? According to the source, IBM will deliver a 64-bit, 600-MHz version of the chip by the first quarter of next year. By 2000, the PowerPC will reach 1 GHz, and that will be followed by a copper-enhanced chip. The executive said the new technology will keep IBM ahead of Intel (company profile) beyond 2000. But IBM wants to be ready in case that is not enough.