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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (25063)	6/5/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Robert Mayo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

"...I'm concerned about the implications of this. We've heard stories of the AIM alliance disintegrating, IBM pulling out of the Somerset research center, and of course the diverging paths of IBM and Motorola in the AltiVec arena. Can this further delay be anything but the result of Motorola's declining resource commitment to the PowerPC and Apple's lack of desire to keep AIM together?...." #### Motorola denies that there'll be any delays. Says they're on track for 3RD quarter shipment of G4. See: wired.com. Pulled this from the second half of the article: "Apple's Good News, Bad News Page 2 3:00 a.m. 5.Jun.99.PDT continued "In other news, Motorola strongly denied reports that its new PowerPC processor has been delayed. According to several Apple news sites, the new chip, dubbed G4 and destined for Apple's next generation of Macintoshes, is suffering from manufacturing problems that could push its debut back to next year. "They're totally wrong," said Will Swearingen, Motorola's director of PowerPC marketing. "We've not changed our schedule at all." Swearingen said that the G4 will debut as planned in the third quarter. "You will see an announcement from Motorola on the G4 processor in the third quarter, and the announcement will involve multiple companies in multiple markets," he said. "Swearingen also denied rumors of trouble with a new copper manufacturing process developed by IBM, Motorola's partner in developing the PowerPC chip. "We've been sampling the part with copper technology for some time now and we've been sending them to a lot more people than Apple," Swearingen said. "The G4 chips are eagerly awaited. Debuting at 400 MHz and up, the chips will feature an advanced graphics-and-telecom technology, known as AltiVec, that is expected to blow the socks off of Intel's MMX instruction set. "As well as powering Macs, the chip is expected to be widely used in embedded applications, especially in the telecom industry." ###### We'll know the truth of it soon enough. BTW, even if MOT starts shipping these things in the September quarter, I'd be surprised if Apple introduced any G4 boxes before early 2000. Apple is on record saying as much. Bob